immoderately
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Their North Star, Irene, played by Parker Posey, is a moderately successful and immoderately self-involved actress who is “theater famous, not famous famous.”
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023
Now here’s the thing about immoderately talented chefs such as Dungca and Cunanan: Whatever project to which they attach themselves, whether fine dining or fast casual, the food always rises to their level.
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021
He was toweringly tall and as immoderately bearded as Michele.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016
My mother wasn’t conventionally religious but she was immoderately literate, an old-fashioned freethinker and lover of the classics with a skeptical, irreverent turn of mind.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2013
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was—in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces—a stunning and final girl.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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