intemperate
adjective
given to or characterized by excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
intemperateness
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a word derived from
intemperate.
Example Sentences
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Weld's 4% victory was largely a rejection of Silber's intemperateness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because of the length of the lunar day and night Kepler described “the great intemperateness of climate and the most violent alternation of extreme heat and cold on the Moon,” which is entirely correct.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
“Besides the intemperateness of the demand,” went on the Dominican, “besides the fact that it is in the nature of an infringement on our prerogatives—” Padre Sibyla dared not go on, but looked at Simoun.
From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire
But this may seem perhaps a sort of intemperateness of delight in knowing everything, and as it were a stream violently bearing down the reasoning faculty.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
But, on the other hand, he greatly marred his influence by what might be called impetuous intemperateness in his early press career.
From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth
