Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a distemperate, disproportioned, or diseased manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Unduly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete
unduly
Etymologies
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distemperate + -ly
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Examples
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He then went on to distemperately rant about Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals", bitterly implying that I, a flipping fifteen year old, am a Communist subversive, sandwiched between lines about me demonizing Republicans.
Crooks and Liars karoli 2011
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