intemperance

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Fault-based divorce, on the other hand, requires the partner seeking the divorce to provide evidence of their spouse's wrongdoing on specific grounds that also vary state-to-state, including cruelty, adultery, intemperance and abandonment.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2024

The intemperance of rebellion and the wisdom of experience — that’s the balance Green Day strikes on “Saviors,” the trio’s 14th studio LP.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024

Usually such a judgment is the result of hyperbole and intemperance.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2022

Still, faulting a novel of this register for intemperance feels like faulting an opera for being “too loud.”

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2022

I was there—on the very rim of our age— when my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance, as you well know, catapulted me into the fever of contemporary existence.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole