immoderate
Use Immoderate in a sentence
ər adjective
1.
not moderate; exceeding just or reasonable limits; excessive; extreme.
2.
Obsolete, intemperate.
3.
Obsolete. without bounds.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | lacking in moderation; excessive: immoderate demands |
| 2. | obsolete venial; intemperate: immoderate habits |
| im'moderately | |
| —adv | |
| immoder'ation | |
| —n | |
| im'moderateness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
His behavior towards his totem animal was subtly ambivalent, expressing itself in immoderate hating and loving.
He was reproached with indulging his taste for the fine arts at an immoderate expense.
If it did not entail the risk of being immoderate, the pleasure it procures would lose its intensity.
These signs already display a potentially immoderate amount of information that the road user is expected to process.
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