Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
temperamental .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream delicately and satisfy my 'temperamentality' while you wander in from the bathroom with lather all over your face, and shout,
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Parra philosphoically remarked that, "we have grown used to his temperamentality" but Harinordoquy, who admitted that whether criticism he thoroughly deserved being criticised after a rare bad day at the office.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream delicately and satisfy my ‘temperamentality’ while you wander in from the bathroom with lather all over your face, and shout, ‘Seen my brown pants?’”
Main Street 2004
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I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream delicately and satisfy my ` temperamentality 'while you wander in from the bathroom with lather all over your face, and shout, ` Seen my brown pants?'"
Main Street 1920
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