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noun

inconstancy

unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous

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Six example sentences with inconstancy, each labelled with its topic.

  • The novel blames the collapse of the friendship on the older brother's inconstancy, promising visits he never once made.

    Literature

  • Allies grew wary of the duke, whose inconstancy left three armies waiting at rivers he had sworn to cross.

    History

  • Half the songs on the record circle one theme: the inconstancy of a partner who disappears whenever the touring starts.

    Music

  • The supplier's inconstancy, honoring one contract and forgetting the next, cost him the factory's business by summer.

    Business

  • The senator's inconstancy on the bill, voting for it twice and against it once, left both sides unwilling to trust him.

    Politics

  • Stoic writers treated inconstancy as a root of misery, since a person who keeps no promise cannot keep any peace either.

    Philosophy

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