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  • adjective superlative form of even: most even.

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Examples

  • Through vile smells, dismal accommodations, indigestible food, and a touch of cholera, the artist maintained “the neatest humor, the nicest observation, and the evenest temper you can imagine,” Henry marveled, wishing the same for himself.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Through vile smells, dismal accommodations, indigestible food, and a touch of cholera, the artist maintained “the neatest humor, the nicest observation, and the evenest temper you can imagine,” Henry marveled, wishing the same for himself.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • At last, indeed, he began to tell me, that from the sweetest and evenest temper in the world, you seemed to be leaning towards melancholy, were always in tears, or shewed you had been weeping, when he came home; and that you did not make his return to you so agreeable as he used to find it.

    Pamela 2006

  • Any force left in his argument vanished that October when his tenant won the plowing contest with a set of the straightest, evenest furrows a judge ever saw.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • Yet generally she was 'the evenest-tempered woman that ever a well-meaning husband found it difficult to get on with.'

    Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

  • "The evenest-tempered man in town -- mad all the time!"

    Triplanetary 1927

  • They had the evenest tempers, the most perfect patience and good nature -- one of the things most impressive about them all was the absence of irritability.

    Herland 1915

  • They had the evenest tempers, the most perfect patience and good nature -- one of the things most impressive about them all was the absence of irritability.

    Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

  • "I thought you had started for California," he said in his evenest tones.

    Branded Francis Lynde 1893

  • Such lips, a little parted to show the whitest, evenest teeth in Hampshire, seemed to Rorie lovely enough to please the most critical connoisseur of feminine beauty.

    Vixen, Volume I. 1875

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