mercurical

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We preserve this idea in our vocabulary when we speak not only of saturnine and jovial people, but also of lunatics, mercurical people, and venereal diseases.

MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM GEORGE BOAS 1968
Gadhafi's style of ruling was so personal, so mercurical, so bizarre that Libya has basically been run on his whim for four decades.

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