intemperate

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1. intemperate - Adjective

2. intemperate - Verb

3. intemperate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.

Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.

Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.

To disorder.

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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Edmund Burke

Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue. Huey Long

An evil and foolish and intemperate and irreligious life should not be called a bad life, but rather, dying long drawn out. Democritus

I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence. Edgar Allan Poe

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. Alan Bleasdale

The intemperate die young, and rarely en joy old age. Latin Proverb

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