intemperance
Example Sentences
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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
Some spats are sparked by the jealousy of older moderates; others by the intemperance of younger progressives.
From Salon • Aug. 6, 2019
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
