immoderate
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The Polish operatic actress Helena Modjeska founded a 19th-century utopian colony in Anaheim, but it foundered, in no small part because of immoderate weather, like the wind.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 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
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
She inveighed against “too frequent resort to separate opinions and the immoderate tone of statements.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018
During convalescence the appetite returns, and is occasionally immoderate, so that it is frequently necessary to curb it lest harm should be done by over indulgence.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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