fickly

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adverb

In a fickle manner.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adverbfickly (comparative more fickly, superlative most fickly)

comparative more fickly · superlative most fickly

  1. obsoleteIn a fickle manner.
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    Up, and away goes Alce, our cooke-mayde, a good servant, whom we loved and did well by her, and she an excellent servant, but would not bear being told of any faulte in the fewest and kindest words and would go away of her owne accord, after having given her mistresse warning fickly for a quarter of a yeare together.

    1666 March 30, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 345–346

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