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as in drunken
given to excessive use of alcoholic beverages a serious course in wine appreciation that does not welcome intemperate drinkers and party animals

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Recent Examples of intemperate Writing fan mail creates an opportunity to take pleasure in my own intemperate passions. Rachael Bedard, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022 In fact, his road to the presidency was marked, and in some ways helped, by his intemperate outbursts. Andrew Downie, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2022 The intemperate voices of the 10% at each extreme of the political spectrum have poisoned public discourse. Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022 In that role, Simpson distinguished himself as a foul-mouthed, intemperate, obnoxious purveyor of misinformation about Social Security. Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for intemperate
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Adjective
  • More recently, China’s rampant overfishing of its own coastal waters has meant expanding fishing in the South China Sea and using fishing fleets to assert new territorial claims.
    Bradley J. Cardinale, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Economic piracy in Southeast Asia is especially rampant in the Strait of Malacca, a critical shipping channel off the coast of Malaysia.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Barton, 42, was accused of kicking his partner, Georgia, in the head during a drunken row in 2021.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The two brothers wake up in a daze as this week’s episode opens, not really remembering what happened during their drunken night on the boat with Chloe and Chelsea.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Sepsis is a condition that leads to uncontrolled inflammation in the body and sometimes organ failure.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • And the risk of loss that comes with uncontrolled communications is profound.
    CBS News, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But this is March, home of the quirky and unexpected, when teams regularly punch above their weight class with unbridled confidence.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Whether that brawny youth can bring that sort of unbridled thinking under real-race weights, in real tack, against real, experienced racehorses that have won multiple stakes remains to be seen.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Image Image Wands for amateur witches and wizards have been a runaway hit for Universal at its older parks.
    Todd Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • These cells play a central role in our immune system, reducing inflammation and inhibiting other cells that can overreact in the face of some triggers, causing a runaway immune response.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Intemperate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intemperate. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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