untempered

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 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

Each of the following manufacturing flaws can contribute to breakage in tempered or untempered glass:

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2018

Especially during the summer, the streets so dog mad with heat, untempered, literally steaming with possibilities, none of them good.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee