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capacious [kəˈpeıʃəs] ADJ

▶ capaciously ADV

malicious [məˈlıʃəs] ADJ

2. malicious:

▶ maliciously ADV
▶ maliciousness N

rapacious [rəˈpeıʃəs] ADJ

▶ rapaciously ADV
▶ rapaciousness, rapacity [rəˈpæsıtı] N

atrocious [əˈtrəʊʃəs] ADJ

2. atrocious:

▶ atrociously ADV

delicious [dıˈlıʃəs] ADJ

2. delicious:

▶ deliciously ADV
▶ deliciousness N

judicious [dʒuːˈdıʃəs] ADJ

▶ judiciously ADV
▶ judiciousness N

officious [əˈfıʃəs] ADJ

auspicious [ɔːˈspıʃəs] ADJ

2. auspicious:

▶ auspiciously ADV

pernicious [pəˈnıʃəs] ADJ

suspicious [səˈspıʃəs] ADJ

2. suspicious:

▶ suspiciously ADV

gracious [ˈgreıʃəs] ADJ

2. gracious:

▶ graciously ADV
▶ graciousness N

spacious [ˈspeıʃəs] ADJ

▶ spaciously ADV
▶ spaciousness N

specious [ˈspiːʃəs] ADJ form

▶ speciously ADV
▶ speciousness N

ferocious [fəˈrəʊʃəs] ADJ

▶ ferociously ADV
▶ ferocity [fəˈrɒsətı] N

salacious [səˈleıʃəs] ADJ

▶ salaciously ADJ
▶ salaciousness N
▶ salacity [səˈlæsıtı] N

voracious [vɒˈreıʃəs] ADJ form

audacious [ɔːˈdeıʃəs] ADJ

1. audacious:

2. audacious:

▶ audaciously ADV
▶ audacity [ɔːˈdæsətı] N

sagacious [səˈgeıʃəs] ADJ

▶ sagaciously ADV
▶ sagaciousness, sagacity [səˈgæsətı] N

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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In practice, commoners had some security against capricious re-possession of their houses and farms.
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These actions, sometimes capricious and brutal, fanned the flames of rebellion.
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It was an ideal role for her, a strange, proud, moody and capricious woman, who was nonetheless vivacious, appealing and entertaining.
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One of the greatest liberal triumphs involved replacing the capricious nature of royalist and absolutist rule with a decision-making process encoded in written law.
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Unlike other stalactites, they grow multidirectionally in capricious ways, i.e. horizontally to the floor, developing weird curved patterns and even upwardly.
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But this disposition does not always manifest itself with the exactitude of clocks; it is often capricious and pertains to various exterior and psychic causes.
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It is arbitrary and capricious, and it leaves humans in a state of fear and uncertainty, which ends only in death.
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A haughty, willful, and capricious girl, she refuses to publicly admit her love and in fact often openly mocks him.
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This beach has heaps of shells pushed onshore in capricious formations.
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The main feature of the zone is basalt rock formations in capricious forms, created by erosion over millions of years.
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