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temperamental

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1. temperamental - Adjective

2. temperamental - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.

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Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. Gordon Ramsay

In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness. Kenneth Tynan

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental. Eva Gabor

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. Gloria Swanson

Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe. Geoffrey Rush

In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings. Bertrand Russell

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