untempered

Example Sentences

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Both sides would incur massive losses if their rivalry intensifies, untempered by any sense of shared interests, and leads to war.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Experience — from the battlefield to the bureaucracy — had instilled a healthy suspicion of power untempered by character.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021

Idealism untempered by an understanding of the complex interplay of forces inside a country ends up in this sort of mess.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2019

If by “rewarding” you mean “educational” — not a different definition that would involve, for example, money or untempered joy.

From The Verge • Nov. 3, 2017

When Homer came to the back of the wagon with a lantern and revealed Ridgeway’s face, the slave catcher was staring at her with untempered fury.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead