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temperamentally

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Gradel felt he was temperamentally unsuited for the trappings of teaching, such as raising money and showing up for work every day at the same place and at the same time.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

In fact it was that "I had the courage to take the leap into the unknown and resign my academic post. I was temperamentally unsuited to it. It wasn't the universities' fault."

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Mir and Raj are schematic opposites, physically and temperamentally.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

As his congressional colleagues know better than anyone, he is poisonously obnoxious, temperamentally unsuited to be the leader of any organization too large to meet in a broom closet.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2024

Like many people, Chris apparently judged artists and close friends by their work, not their life, yet he was temperamentally incapable of extending such lenity to his father.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer