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temperamentally en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English temperamental Middle English -ly English -ly English temperamentally From temperamental + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a temperamental manner.
   • The car engine coughed temperamentally before roaring into life.
2. (not-comparable) By one's temperament.
   • Reggie was a “release” from Guiding Eyes; he kept leading his trainers into light poles, so he was deemed temperamentally unsuited to be a service dog. 2011 June 11, Robin Finn, “Sunday Routine: Jessica Walter”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2023, retrieved 05 Dec 2011:
   • The first [phase] calls for leaders impatient with the past, and temperamentally disposed to an irreverent break with tradition. They must be agitators who can fan the flames of discontent and gather forces with the strength to tear down the old. 1996, Seymour R. Kesten, Utopian Episodes:

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