immoderate

Example Sentences

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They didn’t seem concerned that fighting the immoderate accumulation of riches would be complicated or unnecessary.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024

Ehrenreich records the medieval Christian church’s long battle to eradicate unruly, ecstatic or immoderate dancing from the congregation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2020

MacCulloch paints a portrait of Cromwell as a brilliant individualist with a talent for making money, a head for languages, an immoderate love of books and many friends.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2018

She inveighed against “too frequent resort to separate opinions and the immoderate tone of statements.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

Thus an error and delusion always lies at the foundation of immoderate joy or grief, and consequently both these excessive strainings of the mind can be avoided by knowledge.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur