Definition of "even-tempered" [even-tempered]

• Easygoing; calm. (adjective)

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• "She's been lucky in attracting an even-tempered sympathetic biographer like Ms. Leider, whose book, like the best of its genre, sends you back to the films."
• "We all get polemical from time to time, some of us more than others, but Damian was ever the gentleman: even-tempered, assertive without being offensive, never descending to namecalling."
• "As far as he was concerned, I was a sweet and even-tempered child, intense and serious for my age, but obedient nonetheless."