prima-donnaish

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1. alternativeAlternative form of prima donnaish.

   But you're right, an excellent adaptation. Alan Moore was all too prima-donnaish on having his author's role removed from the credits in this case.

   2009 March 23, P Woods, Client Services, “Re: [MB] Watchmen”, in fa.modesty-blaise (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Aug 2026

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   Other folk get prima-donnaish about having window offices, or having a personal secretary or stuff like that... you only hold out for a few hundred megs of disk space and a pretty hefty communications budget. We all have our price.

   1990 October 7, Bernie Cosell, “What are we going to do when they come for a.s.p?^([sic])”, in news.admin (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Aug 2026

   Clemens was supposed to have refused to sign an autograph for a kid with Down's syndrome who later died. Clemens now denies knowing anything about the kid's situation, etc."This is the lowest blow since I've been here (Boston)," said Clemens. Yeah, probably. It just seems weird (prima-donnaish?) to wait a month (until he has an awesome outing under his belt) to retaliate.

   1992 July 20, [Heather] <hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu>, “Baseball Buns: Rocket Roger [Clemens]'s Latest”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Aug 2026