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prima donna
noun as in principal female performer
noun as in temperamental person
Strongest match
Example Sentences
The Lakers are not the prima donnas they used to be and the Clippers are not the stepchild they used to be.
I look around the rest of the squad and think they are over-paid prima donnas, the lot of them.
But Knight, Larraín, and Jolie are all careful to avoid reducing Callas to an over-the-top ableist stereotype or portraying her as the ruthless prima donna tigress the media painted her as.
Celebrities acting like prima donnas toward restaurant personnel isn’t anything new.
Conservative commentator Piers Morgan wrote: “It’s hard to imagine an American sporting team that’s made the country feel less proud than this bunch of ‘activist’ prima donnas.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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