Intemperance is an English word with synonyms like unrestraint or temperance. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Intemperance in a sentence
Intemperance meaning
- Lack of moderation or temperance; excess.
- Drunkenness or gluttony.
Synonyms of Intemperance
Using Intemperance
- The main meaning on this page is: Lack of moderation or temperance; excess. | Drunkenness or gluttony.
- Useful related words include: intemperateness, unrestraint, temperance, vice.
Context around Intemperance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 38.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 0 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Intemperance
- In this selection, "intemperance" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 38.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include fits of intemperance and violence and young your intemperance is just. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "intemperance" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with intemperance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Minister Young, your intemperance is just one more thread in the tangled web of government’s mismanagement in general and, in particular, mismanagement of its communication strategy—if we can be generous and say that one exists. (37 words)
The alcohol pushes the narrator into fits of intemperance and violence, to the point at which everything angers him – Pluto in particular, who is always by his side, becomes the malevolent witch who haunts him even while avoiding his presence. (40 words)
The alcohol pushes the narrator into fits of intemperance and violence, to the point at which everything angers him – Pluto in particular, who is always by his side, becomes the malevolent witch who haunts him even while avoiding his presence. (40 words)
Minister Young, your intemperance is just one more thread in the tangled web of government’s mismanagement in general and, in particular, mismanagement of its communication strategy—if we can be generous and say that one exists. (37 words)
Example sentences (2)
Minister Young, your intemperance is just one more thread in the tangled web of government’s mismanagement in general and, in particular, mismanagement of its communication strategy—if we can be generous and say that one exists.
The alcohol pushes the narrator into fits of intemperance and violence, to the point at which everything angers him – Pluto in particular, who is always by his side, becomes the malevolent witch who haunts him even while avoiding his presence.