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FIKL/ˈfɪkl/

Fickle means changing often and without good reason, especially in loyalty or taste: fickle support, a fickle market. Unreliable is everyday; a night that comes and goes is a rota finding, not “agile culture”.

Meaning

Changing often and without good reason, especially in loyalty or taste.

Examples

• “A fickle night rota is a cover hole, not “agile culture”.”
• “Unreliable is everyday. Capricious is the close twin. Agile is a slogan. A gap on the grid is evidence. Staff the night, or close the sitting; do not baptise the gap as culture.”

Good to know

Unreliably changeable. Everyday: unreliable. “Agile culture” ≠ a night hole.

Near in meaning

unreliable, capricious, changeable

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