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arbitrary and capricious

Adjective

Meaning

arbitrary and capricious (not comparable)

(law) Describing the action of committing a deed according to one's will or caprice and therefore implying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. George Ryan

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