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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

On hearing himself thus unjustly and intemperately reproached, the Mochuelo turned very pale, and his left hand sunk down as though seeking the hilt of his sabre.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various