temperamental
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- a relating to or caused by temperament
temperamental indifference to neatness
temperamental peculiarities - s subject to sharply varying moods
a temperamental opera singer - s likely to perform unpredictably; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"
a temperamental motor
that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster
- Somewhere, there was a sort of temperamental dark matter exerting an invisible gravitational pull of its own.
- So computers become temperamental; dogs enjoy wearing sweaters.
- Those who want more than the obvious music sites can deliver will have to contend with sometimes mysterious FTP links and frequent rejection from temperamental FTP servers -- but .