NOUN
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excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence
the intemperance of their language - consumption of alcoholic drinks
How To Use intemperateness In A Sentence
- However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humor or kindness. Storyteller
- Ms. Gornick reflects on the "raging intemperateness" of the era's feminist rhetoric—"marriage is an institution of oppression"; "love is rape"; "sleeping with the enemy"—and realizes now that reform wasn't the goal. Lyrical Leftist, Dogged Idealist
- Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. Easter Lemming Liberal News
- With such prudence of the humors, with God's help, you will keep far away the intemperateness which is the cause of early aging and an early death. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
- Perhaps we should all be thankful for Scalia's intemperateness, which has had the salutary effect of marginalizing him on the Court. Adam Winkler: Justice Scalia & the Coarsening of American Culture
- Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. Gallup: Obama Leads Hillary By Ten Points, Narrowly Edging McCain