immoderate

Example Sentences

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Among the “risk factors” Robinhood listed for would-be investors in its SEC filing is its immoderate dependence on revenues from dogecoin trading.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2021

Ehrenreich records the medieval Christian church’s long battle to eradicate unruly, ecstatic or immoderate dancing from the congregation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2020

When we are young, we make immoderate demands on those powers that steer existence.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

MacCulloch paints a portrait of Cromwell as a brilliant individualist with a talent for making money, a head for languages, an immoderate love of books and many friends.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2018

Moderate feeling is beneficial to the organism, immoderate feeling harmful; hence the appearance of the one as pleasure, and of the other as pain.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.