(a.) Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation chief, Duncan Lewis, asked a couple of MPs to tone down the rhetoric , fearing the immoderate language used by some politicians would have a detrimental impact on national security.
(2) Deformation of the respiratory tract due to silicosis has a greater bearing on the development of chronic bronchitis and airway obstruction than immoderate cigarette smoking.
(3) As well as not being able to drink immoderately any more, I can't hack the big, filthy hangovers either.
(4) If someone wants to take an immoderate position on Israel or Palestine, should I accept that the same restriction applies?
(5) Beijing has to realise it is a moderate community and that the only thing likely to stoke up immoderation is the denial of democratic aspirations.
(6) On account of a serious local damage of the skin in both patients the administration of an immoderate dosage must be supposed.
(7) If he knows that one of his patients is drinking immoderately, he should warn him of the outlook.
(8) Many of the known methodological problems and difficulties will arise in the mentioned scientific branches if one stresses immoderately only one component of "idea and experience" by leaving the natural, discipline-related range of variation of the relation "idea and experience".
(9) As for as spontaneous nutrition is concerned the frequency of normal food intake or even of hypocaloric intake, the immoderate proportion of fat intake and the frequency of the few, daily meals.
(10) Immoderate consumption of alcohol was found to be related to three other potentially addictive behaviors (illicit drug use, smoking, and caffeine consumption) in a randomly drawn sample (n = 1253) of American adults.
(11) The politician who is really despised is the kleptocrat who both steals immoderately and does not share the proceeds.
(12) The poison was recycled in The Sun, by Andrew Neil and on BBC's Question Time and would you believe it, there are also some quite rude and immoderate people on Twitter.
(13) However, a sampling of historical sources reveals that not only are there warnings in the writings of both Hippocrates and Aristotle concerning the dangers of excessive intake of cold or iced water, but a series of medical works, from the sixteenth century on, incorporate discussion and illustrative case histories about the detrimental effect of immoderate usage of cold water, ice and snow, frequently in the context of disordered eating.
(14) Immoderate eating habits (e.g., overeating) may aggravate or contribute to the development of degenerative diseases and should be discouraged.
(15) The metachromasia was readily lost after immoderate washing in aqueous solutions or routine dehydration in ethanol, with consequent diminished fiber type distinction.
(16) However, a belief is growing among ordinary soldiers, not just that the generals' perks are immoderate but that in some cases their families are using their connections to make huge corrupt fortunes outside the military.
(17) During the reduction of the fracture, the immoderate use of a image intensifior seams to be the major risk.
(18) This data indicates that the eicosanoid metabolism is involved in the modulation of the potent vasoconstrictor effect of ET-1 in HSV and that PGI2-releaser, such as defibrotide, may have therapeutical value against immoderate changes of venous tone.
(19) Particular Tory policies – on human rights, say, or on welfare – might have been immoderate, but Mr Cameron was always able to wrap them up, often pretty convincingly, in the language of pragmatic common sense.
(20) Significant prevention effects were found for cigarette smoking, marijuana use, and immoderate alcohol use.
Outrageous
Definition:
(n.) Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
(2) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
(3) In his biography, Tony Blair admits to having accumulated 70 at one point – "considered by some to be a bit of a constitutional outrage", he adds.
(4) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(5) Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said he was "outraged" by what he described as the administration's "deeply flawed analysis and what can only be interpreted as lip service to one of the greatest threats to our children's future: climate disruption".
(6) Before breaking it under the weight of outrageous expectation in a couple of years.
(7) Just this week, we heard the outrage pouring from many Americans over the crowning of an Indian Miss USA .
(8) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
(9) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(10) "The pressure the Germans are putting us under is outrageous," said Sarandi Pitsas, a pensioner who took to the streets to protest against the austerity measures.
(11) I think the club became a bit of a laughing stock last summer with outrageous bids for players we had no real hope of getting.
(12) Japan scrapped its original plan for the national stadium last month in the face of widespread outrage after costs ballooned to £1.34bn ($2.1bn), nearly twice the original estimates – an unusual move for an Olympic host city this late in the process.
(13) It is outrageous to somehow link these to us potentially breaching the welfare cap."
(14) People can claim selective outrage but when we’re finding … CIA spy after CIA spy in Germany week by week but we’re not finding any German spies in the United States and the German government claims that it doesn’t have those kind of spies you know there’s no evidence to make these kind of claims.
(15) The first is the possibility that elections will descend into serious violence, perhaps intensified by Boko Haram outrages.
(16) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
(17) Just right there, in this moment of embarrassing, unhinged, painfully real comic outrage in Portnoy's Complaint, the novel that made Roth famous in 1969, you have the reason why Booker judge Carmen Callil is profoundly wrong to object to Roth getting the International Booker prize – she has withdrawn from the three-person jury over the choice which the other two, male, judges were dead set on.
(18) Yet its outrage dims when the models – the same models who appear in the usual shows, mind – are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture.
(19) But he might just be saving his most outrageous behaviour for the World Cup, as he did in 2010 when his mean-spirited handball stopped Ghana becoming the first African nation to reach a World Cup semi-final.
(20) One year later, and despite worldwide outrage, their whereabouts remains unknown.