How to Use intemperate in a Sentence

intemperate

adjective

• The message is a bit muddled, as intemperate tweets tend to be.
  — Kia Makarechi, The Hive, 16 June 2017
• The message is a bit muddled, as intemperate tweets tend to be.
  — Kia Makarechi, vanityfair.com, 16 June 2017
• At this point nothing appears to stand in the way of the House’s intemperate and unreasonable vote to impeach.
  — Robert Ray, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
• Certainly running as a check on an intemperate president is a good place for Democrats to be.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 16 May 2017
• Instead, their choices depend on a long list of mental short cuts and intemperate emotions, which often lead them to pick the wrong options.
  — Jonah Lehrer, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2011
• This is why a handful of intemperate white supremacists have been banned but Donald J. Trump has not.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 29 Mar. 2018
• Under this scenario Democrats would also hope that intemperate voices on the right increasingly seek to dismiss the claims out of hand.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
• But sometimes those voices that are intemperate, uninformed and cruel can be put to use.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• Nor are members of the Senate above slinging intemperate invective of their own.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• Leaders like Pelosi are wary of looking intemperate and jeopardizing the prospects for Democrats in moderate districts or places where Trump won lots of votes.
  — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 May 2017
• Something more assertive is required: a crust that can stand up for itself, that holds without crumbling and can survive intemperate handling and a long, brisk walk.
  — Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
• But provoking an intemperate ruler who controls a nuclear arsenal is, to say the least, risky—which is why his staff advised against it.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 27 Sep. 2017
• But despite the intemperate ramblings of the current occupant of the Oval Office, there is no support whatsoever in the Congress or the country for a war of regime change in Russia.
  — Ben Domenech, National Review, 5 Apr. 2022
• Moderators removed the post and the intemperate comments on it.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• And aided by an intemperate radicalism within and the Cold War threat without, the activists were able to use that shame to affect meaningful change.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
• De Grey vexes many in the life-extension community, and one reason may be his intemperate life style.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017
• De Grey vexes many in the life-extension community, and one reason may be his intemperate life style.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• My love of the show, like most Murphy endeavors, is its intemperate spirit, its taste for amphitheater emotion.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• Sneed had no qualms with the other courses for the evening’s meal, including a quail egg buried in buttery brioche and topped with an intemperate amount of osetra caviar, and a silky corn soup studded with fresh lobster and lobster quenelles.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
• The country’s vocal women’s movement has faced an intemperate backlash from men who object to its demands.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020
• The defining verbal action of our particular historical moment seems to be the shout, or, even worse, the intemperate tweet.
  — Brian C. Rosenberg, Washington Post, 26 July 2017
• We are thus left with an object lesson on the perils of intemperate rhetoric and absurd arguments when employed in the service of dubious, unlikely to be met goals.
  — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2022
• Nevertheless, some progressives who want action now are in favor of this option, ignoring the risk of intemperate use of power down the line.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 Mar. 2021
• And yet: Just as Mattis sought to reassure nervous allies, back home there were numerous reminders that the populist and intemperate impulses of his boss will not be tamed.
  — James Kitfield, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2017
• Anyone wanting to remove him better have more than Jim Comey’s firing or Trump’s own ill-advised and intemperate comments to justify it.
  — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 18 June 2017
• Mr Trump’s confrontational approach has only added to worries that a full falling-out is only an intemperate tweet away.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Lhamon responded with arguably the single most intemperate remark on Title IX from a public official in the last decade.
  — Kc Johnson, National Review, 1 June 2021
• And those inclined to show continued support must contort themselves in their efforts to work around his intemperate, incautious words.
  — Scott Pilutik, Slate Magazine, 30 July 2017
• Trump can do just as much damage to the security of the United States and its allies through misguided and intemperate action as through acting as a conscious agent of Russian policy.
  — Keir Giles, CNN, 10 May 2017
• Consider the high-performance version of the large luxury SUV, which is even more expensive and even more intemperate in its use of petroleum, leather, and veneers.
  — Al Haas, Philly.com, 13 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024