personalty
Americannoun
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personalties
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of personalty
1600–10; < Anglo-French personalte < Late Latin persōnālitās personality
Example Sentences
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The film doesn’t attempt to fit these two halves of his personalty together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
After attending Yale, Cornell and Le Cordon Bleu throughout the 1980s, Tsai became recognized for his restaurant Blue Ginger, as well as becoming a burgeoning television personalty in the nascent days of Food Network.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023
Players also go through a litany of personalty tests at these events.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2018
“Rock ’n’ Roll Never Forgets,” with the radio personalty Dennis Elsas.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2016
In wealth per capita, Lincoln county leads the state, showing for assessment purposes an average holding of real estate of $1,163 and $226 in personalty.
From A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Ithamar Howell
Rosenwald said some of the rhetoric of conservative talk personalties is driven by a chicken-and-egg issue.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
I also came into a Villa side full of strong personalties such as Paul Merson, David Ginola and Dion Dublin.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2018
Mr. Trump fit right in, though, at an event that depends more on outsize personalties than on golf skills.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2018
But of all the theories that journalist Rob Sheffield explores in his fascinating new book “Dreaming the Beatles,” one of the most compelling is how well the Fab Four reflect our own personalties and relationship dynamics.
From Salon ● May 6, 2017
In the advertisements, a comma following "Boston Transcript" was changed to a period, "dominant personalties" was changed to "dominant personalties", and "Medalion in color" was changed to "Medallion in color".
From The Devil A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience by Marie Manning
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