tempered
adjective
having a temper or disposition of a specified character (usually used in combination).
untempered
-
a word derived from
tempered.
Example Sentences
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Both sides would incur massive losses if their rivalry intensifies, untempered by any sense of shared interests, and leads to war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
Experience — from the battlefield to the bureaucracy — had instilled a healthy suspicion of power untempered by character.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2021
Idealism untempered by an understanding of the complex interplay of forces inside a country ends up in this sort of mess.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
If by “rewarding” you mean “educational” — not a different definition that would involve, for example, money or untempered joy.
From The Verge ● Nov. 3, 2017
Because of the universal respect the regent enjoyed — from both black and white — and the seemingly untempered power that he wielded, I saw chieftaincy as being the very center around which life revolved.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
