distemper
Example Sentences
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In service to that conviction, Davis examined the distempers of Los Angeles and diagnosed their causes.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022
Hesse, by analogy, might be called an ugly soul, one who is so occupied with his own spiritual distempers that the outside world barely makes an impression.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018
And the portrait of Johnson and Reagan as twin handmaidens to our current distempers shortchanges how each leader achieved for his side and the country a set of lasting political and policy triumphs.
From Washington Post
At the heart of Europe's sickness last week, underlying its dollar deficiencies, its currency distempers, its lack of pep and its chronic sweat and tears, was a shortage of one grubby product�coal.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were few engagements with the enemy at that time—the rebels, we suspected, had little powder and less spirit—so the most numerous deaths were from distempers and disorders.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing distemper
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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