Immoderately

Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb

Meaning

In an immoderate manner..

Example Sentences

2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13, From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.

by pursuinge wherof he imagynes he shall reape some glory to himselfe, of which he is immoderately ambitious, so that if the consultation be upon any action to be done, no man more implicitely enters into that debate, or more cheerefully resignes his owne conceptions to a joynt determination[…]

[…] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.

[…] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately

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• more immoderately
• most immoderately

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