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词汇 intemperance
释义 intemperance
noun[ U ]
 formaluk /ɪnˈtem.pər.əns/ us /ɪnˈtem.pɚ.əns/
the action or quality of showing anger or violence that is too extreme and not well controlled: 无节制,过度,放纵
I regret the intemperance of what I said.我对所说的不恰当的话感到遗憾。
Lack of resources leads to additional stress and can lead to intemperance.资源的缺乏导致了额外的压力,并可能导致行为上的放纵。
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intemperate
She had written back regretting her earlier intemperance and suggesting a friendly drink.
The intemperance of his words infuriated the community.
He has protested about the intemperance of the criticism he has encountered.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Uncontrolled
all hell breaks looseidiom
amok
amuck
corybantic
crazily
madding
maniacal
maniacally
non-regulated
out of handidiom
spread like wildfireidiom
squirrelly
tearaway
unbridled
uncheckable
wayward
waywardly
waywardness
wig out
wigged out

Examples of intemperance


intemperance
Finally, associations are formed to combat exclusively moral troubles: intemperance is fought in common.
Although disclosed teeth imply wild intemperance to almost no one today, artists are the last to relinquish the rich old resonances.
As we have seen, intemperance can be due to a wide range of conditions, from the ridiculous to the sublime.
Those who scandalized the public were condemned to perform a public penance to deter others from committing such intemperances.
They ally themselves with the aristocracy as gentle but distinguish themselves from the material signs of aristocracy and certain aristocratic behaviors, particularly idleness, intemperance, and roguery toward women.
In addition, he argues that many workers are the authors of their own misfortunes, citing intemperance and greed as major causes of working class ill-health (45-50, 209-11).
I believe the reason is that the calamity of intemperance affects a woman rather differently in some ways from a man.
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If they are going to stop intemperance by limiting drink, why do they touch one source of supply only, and not all sources of supply?
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In the first place it will not tend to diminish intemperance.
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In fact, in my opinion, it will rather promote intemperance.
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Unemployment is due to defective constitution, to irregular habits, such as intemperance, and to slum life and low wages.
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I am a teetotaller but am well aware that intemperance in the cause of temperance is generally counter-productive.
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It is comparatively rare for intemperance to break out after that age except under the stress of circumstances quite outside our present consideration.
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I am afraid it is a formidable evil, more formidable even than the great evil of intemperance, and it does almost more damage than intemperance.
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First, the persuasiveness of argument is often in inverse ratio to the intemperance of the language used to advance it.
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