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intemperance

[in-tem-per-uhns, -pruhns] / ɪnˈtɛm pər əns, -prəns /
NOUN
insobriety
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The intemperance of rebellion and the wisdom of experience — that’s the balance Green Day strikes on “Saviors,” the trio’s 14th studio LP.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024

Usually such a judgment is the result of hyperbole and intemperance.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2022

Some spats are sparked by the jealousy of older moderates; others by the intemperance of younger progressives.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2019

As reformers made progress against ills like intemperance, they increasingly saw the moral blindness and cruelty of slavery as the greatest and most intractable obstacles to American improvement.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

I was there—on the very rim of our age— when my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance, as you well know, catapulted me into the fever of contemporary existence.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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