immoderately
Example Sentences
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“So, for ten minutes or so, we played with the insect, making it run up and down each other’s arms, and laughing immoderately, so that all the other passengers obviously doubted our sanity.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2021
There aren’t many places on Earth with a large enough community of transient billionaires to support such immoderately high-end retail, but central London is one of them.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
He can respond immoderately if he thinks he’s been crossed.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017
My mother wasn’t conventionally religious but she was immoderately literate, an old-fashioned freethinker and lover of the classics with a skeptical, irreverent turn of mind.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2013
The hearth smoked immoderately, given the dampness and warmth of the night.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
