How to Use intemperate in a Sentence

intemperate

adjective
  • The message is a bit muddled, as intemperate tweets tend to be.
    — Kia Makarechi, vanityfair.com, 16 June 2017
  • But sometimes those voices that are intemperate, uninformed and cruel can be put to use.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Certainly running as a check on an intemperate president is a good place for Democrats to be.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 16 May 2017
  • Instead, their choices depend on a long list of mental short cuts and intemperate emotions, which often lead them to pick the wrong options.
    — Jonah Lehrer, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2011
  • At this point nothing appears to stand in the way of the House’s intemperate and unreasonable vote to impeach.
    — Robert Ray, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Nor are members of the Senate above slinging intemperate invective of their own.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The country’s vocal women’s movement has faced an intemperate backlash from men who object to its demands.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020
  • But provoking an intemperate ruler who controls a nuclear arsenal is, to say the least, risky—which is why his staff advised against it.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Moderators removed the post and the intemperate comments on it.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • And the news media can’t resist covering every intemperate tweet.
    — Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2017
  • De Grey vexes many in the life-extension community, and one reason may be his intemperate life style.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • De Grey vexes many in the life-extension community, and one reason may be his intemperate life style.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017
  • My love of the show, like most Murphy endeavors, is its intemperate spirit, its taste for amphitheater emotion.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 11 July 2019
  • Sometimes the reporters are admonished by their editors for being too voicey, too intemperate, too much themselves.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2018
  • Under this scenario Democrats would also hope that intemperate voices on the right increasingly seek to dismiss the claims out of hand.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
  • And those inclined to show continued support must contort themselves in their efforts to work around his intemperate, incautious words.
    — Scott Pilutik, Slate Magazine, 30 July 2017
  • Lawmakers talked over each other and the witness, in sometimes starkly personal and intemperate terms.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
  • The defining verbal action of our particular historical moment seems to be the shout, or, even worse, the intemperate tweet.
    — Brian C. Rosenberg, Washington Post, 26 July 2017
  • Nevertheless, some progressives who want action now are in favor of this option, ignoring the risk of intemperate use of power down the line.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 Mar. 2021
  • We are thus left with an object lesson on the perils of intemperate rhetoric and absurd arguments when employed in the service of dubious, unlikely to be met goals.
    — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Even many who supported candidate Trump have been revolted by his intemperate, cruel and dangerous rhetoric, and by some of his policies.
    — Michael S. Roth, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
  • Elon is given to making headline-making statements, sometimes intemperate statements.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Trump’s most intemperate outbursts, his most indecent musings, pale before opinions that were mainstream in living memory.
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 10 May 2018
  • Three months, and not one player reaching for his phone in an intemperate moment, publicly second-guessing the negotiating strategy of his union.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
  • And aided by an intemperate radicalism within and the Cold War threat without, the activists were able to use that shame to affect meaningful change.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Her account seemed troublingly plausible—and the judge’s response intemperate and highly partisan.
    — The Economist, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Leaders like Pelosi are wary of looking intemperate and jeopardizing the prospects for Democrats in moderate districts or places where Trump won lots of votes.
    — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 May 2017
  • Sneed had no qualms with the other courses for the evening’s meal, including a quail egg buried in buttery brioche and topped with an intemperate amount of osetra caviar, and a silky corn soup studded with fresh lobster and lobster quenelles.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Past statements or e-mails can be taken out of context, with dangerous results, so carefully phrase your statements in board meetings or in e-mails — and avoid intemperate or sarcastic remarks.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Lamentably, much of the solemnity of the day has given way to binge shopping, barbecues and, to put it bluntly, often intemperate consumption of alcoholic beverages.
    — Peter G. Chronis, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017

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