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mercurially
adverb
literaryuk /mɜːˈkjʊə.ri.ə.li/ us /mɝːˈkjʊr.i.ə.li/
in a way that changes suddenly and often, in a way you do not expect:
He is a tall, middle-aged man with a mercurially expressive face.
She disappeared from Michael's life as mercurially as she had entered it.
The music evolves mercurially from one thrilling section to another, changing direction with hardly a moment's notice.
He is less mercurially quick than he was when he first joined the jazz world, but his sound is still magnificent.
She gave a mercurially emotional performance of the role that left even her critics delighted.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Changing frequently
capricious
capriciously
capriciousness
changeable
changeful
inconsistency
inconsistent
inconsistently
inconstant
inconstantly
patchy
ping-pong
protean
raggedly
raggedness
unpredictable
variability
volatility
yo-yoing
zigzag
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