intemperately
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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First for overstepping with your post, and next for pushing back, intemperately at that, when they asked you to take it down.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2023
There she became known as a consensus builder who adhered closely to precedent, wrote narrowly tailored decisions, and refused to join intemperately written opinions.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
It happens when someone behaves meanly or intemperately and has a curse put on them in return.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
That she likes words intemperately, tells jokes and wears prairie and bordello dresses.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2010
Mr. Y——, a young man about twenty-five years of age, who lived intemperately, was seized with an obstinate intermittent, which had become a continued fever with strong pulse, attended with daily remission.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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