Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint.
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- adverb In an
intemperate manner.
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- adverb indulging excessively
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sen. Durbin intemperately reprises his old argument which is essentially that price fixing is bad unless the government is the one fixing the prices.
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Boldly, perhaps intemperately, Scott Rasmussen and Douglas Schoen assert that the tea party movement "is here to stay, and that represents a fundamental and generational transformation of American politics."
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston Post 2010
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Boldly, perhaps intemperately, Scott Rasmussen and Douglas Schoen assert that the tea party movement "is here to stay, and that represents a fundamental and generational transformation of American politics."
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston Post 2010
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The other man, who has not even so much as introduced himself, smiles at Isaac, which causes the old man to sigh intemperately.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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It has produced its first report on the expenses claimed by MPs in the new parliament, indicating a marked decline in the overall sum now claimed from the taxpayer, and it has been praised (grudgingly) and criticised (intemperately) by some MPs, up to and including the prime minister himself, who has decreed the new system to be "not acceptable".
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Boldly, perhaps intemperately, Scott Rasmussen and Douglas Schoen assert that the tea party movement "is here to stay, and that represents a fundamental and generational transformation of American politics."
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston Post 2010
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“He spoke so—intemperately—that I had to restrain myself from using my stick on him.”
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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“He spoke so—intemperately—that I had to restrain myself from using my stick on him.”
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Anna Zubrzycki, the company's co-founder, lends Lady Macbeth a steely determination, but relies overmuch on sforzando by which odd phrases are intemperately bellowed.
Macbeth - review Michael Billington 2010
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“He spoke so—intemperately—that I had to restrain myself from using my stick on him.”
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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