untempered

Example Sentences

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Both sides would incur massive losses if their rivalry intensifies, untempered by any sense of shared interests, and leads to war.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Experience — from the battlefield to the bureaucracy — had instilled a healthy suspicion of power untempered by character.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021

If by “rewarding” you mean “educational” — not a different definition that would involve, for example, money or untempered joy.

From The Verge • Nov. 3, 2017

Mr. Jackson is known as a deft exponent of John Coltrane’s clear and untempered sound on the tenor saxophone.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2017

Some were fascinated by the untempered race of man.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir