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
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
You have journeyed and you have walked, but you have done neither sufficiently to justify intemperateness.
From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
“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
