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as in excessiveness
a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits
a talk show that seems to select political pundits mostly for their exhibitionistic intemperateness
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as in alcoholism
habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants
as far as the townspeople are concerned, the students at the local college seem to be far more noteworthy for their intemperateness than for their intellectualism
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Noun
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Brilliant but famously difficult to work with due to his alcoholism, Lorenz Hart died the year after his collaborator Richard Rodgers launched his successful creative partnership with Oscar Hammerstein.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
2 Sep. 2025 -
Fuller, who had an absent father and mother with alcoholism, was in a crash in 2019 that left him permanently disabled and he's also been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The ruling landed as a symbolic rebuke of Musk’s sway over Tesla, and a warning about the excesses of Silicon Valley’s cult-of-founder ethos.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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An excess of dry fuels and vegetation is compounded by fire weather conditions that are becoming more common year-round.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Intemperateness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intemperateness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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