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
Several of the charges that are most often and intemperately made against him are wrong, while the case for his defence or mitigation is sometimes far too routinely dismissed.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2012
That she likes words intemperately, tells jokes and wears prairie and bordello dresses.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2010
The criminal was execrated at the South and intemperately defended at the North.
From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall
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