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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 capriciously
 (ad.)任性地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ca·pri·cious a.  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. “Capricious poet.” --Shak. “Capricious humor.” --Hugh Miller.
    A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.   --Hallam.
 Syn: -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary.
 -- Ca*pri*cious*ly, adv. -- Ca*pri*cious*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 capriciously
      adv 1: unpredictably; "the weather has been freakishly variable"
             [syn: freakishly]
      2: in a capricious manner; "there were Turk's head lilies and
         patches of iris , islands of brilliant blue set
         capriciously in the green sea"