Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In temperament; as regards temperament.
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- adverb In a
temperamental manner
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- adverb by temperament
Etymologies
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Examples
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Later, Cook is described as temperamentally different than Jobs.
unknown title 2011
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It is here I hook up with Dr. Zahi Hawass, head of the Egyptian Antiquity Commission, and a man temperamentally disinclined to keep any achievement quiet.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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With penetration and style, he paints a complex portrait of a society geographically and temperamentally divided, constantly at war with itself, yet managing to forge a cohesive national identity at home and abroad.
Cover to Cover 2009
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This man clearly is not temperamentally suited to the practice of medicine - = cmac = -
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Lisa Appignanesi is an ambitious writer who is temperamentally drawn to big subjects.
All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi – review 2011
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It is here I hook up with Dr. Zahi Hawass, head of the Egyptian Antiquity Commission, and a man temperamentally disinclined to keep any achievement quiet.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Unfortunately, Johnson was ill-suited ideologically and temperamentally for the demands of the job.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Brought up in an arts-loving family, a Humanities graduate and temperamentally suspicious of Science (even though I was living with a games programmer), I had a deep mistrust and anxiety about anything to do with things technical.
March 24th, 2009 dame_habonde 2009
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He was temperamentally closer to the Co-operative movement than to free market fundamentalism.
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Brought up in an arts-loving family, a Humanities graduate and temperamentally suspicious of Science (even though I was living with a games programmer), I had a deep mistrust and anxiety about anything to do with things technical.
dame_habonde: In honour of Ada Lovelace Day... dame_habonde 2009
oroboros commented on the word temperamentally
Five words joined: T, EM, PER, AMEN, TALLY. (Thanks to Futility Closet)
July 20, 2009
sionnach commented on the word temperamentally
WHEAT
apply some HEAT and get something you can
EAT
AT
T.
(courtesy of Flann O' Brien, aka Miles na Gopaleen)
July 21, 2009