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intemperate

adjective as in drunken

adjective as in excessive

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An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.

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Judge James Boasberg repeatedly clashed with justice department attorney Drew Ensign during a court hearing in Washington DC, saying he was not used to such "intemperate, disrespectful language" in government filings.

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Republican congressional behavior echoes that of an intemperate toddler and the party’s intellectual and ideological foundations have become completely unmoored.

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Following the publication of a report by an independent panel, which found he breached Parliament's bullying and harassment policy, he said he accepted he had used "intemperate and inappropriate language"

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The statement added that he was a decent man who voiced his “sometimes intemperate” grievances “in what has become the public square of our age - the internet.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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