Intemperate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INTEMPERATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• To disorder.
ADJECTIVE:
• not temperate
• given to or characterized by excessive indulgence, especially in alcohol
• having or showing a lack of self-control; immoderate
• Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.
• Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.
• Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.
• (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes
• excessive in behavior
• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not temperate; given to excessive use of intoxicating liquors

Words related to INTEMPERATE

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Words that contain INTEMPERATE

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How to use INTEMPERATE in a sentence

• Every time that, in a friendly way, I gave him counsels of moderation and showed him the necessity of limiting the requests of Greece, I never found a hard or intemperate spirit.
• A big table in one corner was loaded with bottles and glasses, indicating the intemperate habits of the inmates, while on the chimney shelf were rows of pipes and jars of tobacco.
• Wilks, still keeping the restraining hand of age on the shoulder of intemperate youth, passed in and stood, smiling amiably, while Mrs.
• The boy seemed astonishingly stupid in learning music, though the father encouraged him with intemperate zeal.
• He made use of some intemperate, or ill-timed expressions, which were not interpreted, but which brought out a strong rebuke from Mr.
• Then he suddenly remembered that he had committed another sin besides intemperate rage.
• Well, I have tried it, and proved it to be a lamentable delusion, selfish, obstinate, blind, intemperate, and transient.
• O Divine Providence! Though wicked, sinful, and intemperate, we still seek from Thee a “seat of truth,” and long to behold the countenance of the Omnipotent King.
• The more urgent the required change, the more intemperate is the vehemence of its promoters.
• By wild speculation and intemperate curiosity we violate His will, and incur dangerous, perhaps fatal, consequences.
• Had he himself been intemperate, he would not have preached against it in such a manner.
• I could not possibly hold aloof, but called for help from the hotel people, and, with them at my back, rushed out to add my protest against this intemperate conduct.
• And the soul which has order is better than the soul which is without order, and is therefore temperate and is therefore good, and the intemperate is bad.
• They are not what would be called intemperate, nor are they licentious.
• Hutchinson, who, they said, had provoked them to act thus by his intemperate conduct.
• Its effect on them was strongly displayed by an intemperate sally into which, on the very next night, Mr.
• The essential justice of what he said is not impaired by the fact that he was usually indiscreet and intemperate in the saying of it.
• And when the winde is at Northeast and Northerly, then it raineth, with lightning and thunder, and is very intemperate weather.
• That kind of talk never seems intemperate, for it touches on sacred things.
• I dread reform, but I dread it only when it is intemperate.
• The ministers stood with the magistrates in their delusion and intemperate zeal.
• Or, to be accurate, bred in her an intemperate heat, putting a match to jealousies which, till this instant, she had no knowledge of.
• The occasion was not one for intemperate grief, but the sense of loss was great.
• A brother of mine was intemperate and that was a warning to me.
• When I awoke from my intemperate trance, and found what a cursed way I was in, my conscience smote me, and I was for catching like a drowning wretch, at every straw.
• Is woman intemperate, she differs from man in the gratification of her appetite.
• The next day was cool and grave for intemperate August.
• Do not be so intemperate yourself in thought, speech, and action as to lessen your influence.
• And was there anything meddling or intemperate in this? Certainly not.
• Provocation seldom produces in them any intemperate warmth, or takes away, in any material degree, from the apparent composure of their minds.
• They are generally ignorant, intemperate, licentious, and profane.

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