untempered

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 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

In life, he was startlingly lacking in artifice or pretension, his excitement about the natural world as simple and untempered as a young child’s.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2016

Especially during the summer, the streets so dog mad with heat, untempered, literally steaming with possibilities, none of them good.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee