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as in rampant
showing no signs of being under control
intemperate anger that is so extreme that the man should be in therapy
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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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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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Recent Examples of intemperate
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
Writing fan mail creates an opportunity to take pleasure in my own intemperate passions.
—Rachael Bedard, New York Times, 16 Aug. 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
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Adjective
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
Writing fan mail creates an opportunity to take pleasure in my own intemperate passions.
—Rachael Bedard, New York Times, 16 Aug. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intemperate
Adjective
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These sanctions, the US claims, are meant to target rampant corruption and human rights abuses in the country, as well as its leaders’ undermining of democracy.—
Andrew Raine,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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Speculation of a breakup is rampant but the news is not yet public.—
Caleb Hammond,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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His arrival home each night is announced by his sputtering motorcycle and his drunken stumbling up the stairs.—
Adam Solomons,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
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The data, which is from the past three years and from LendingTree’s proprietary database, includes recent traffic incidents and violations such as accidents, drunken driving arrests and speeding tickets.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
Adjective
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Reinforce Change Management With Staged Rollouts As with any outage, Pennsylvania’s 911 failure highlighted how uncontrolled changes—whether in hardware, software or configurations—can disrupt critical systems.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made by AstraZeneca, showed promise in treating people with uncontrolled or resistant high blood pressure in a recent trial.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
30 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
Adjective
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With its mad, unbridled ambition, vision, and resourcefulness (staggeringly, this grand saga was shot in just over a month with a budget of under $10 million), there was no bigger swing at Venice.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
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Pure, unbridled anger at Democratic leadership's paralysis.—
Christopher Bouzy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Anticipation is high for season 2 of High Potential, which emerged last year as a runaway hit for ABC.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
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Though Broadcom hasn’t experienced Nvidia’s runaway sales growth, it is seen as a key AI beneficiary.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Intemperate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intemperate. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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