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/ˈtɛmpəsəm/ · adjective
Characterised or marked by a temper; bad-tempered; temperamental; hotheaded; moody..
And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen every day.
Virginia did not recover until early September, when she wrote that she was still cross and “tempersome”.
Use tempersome when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tempersome means Characterised or marked by a temper; bad-tempered; temperamental; hotheaded; moody..
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And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen every day.
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