immoderately
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“So, for ten minutes or so, we played with the insect, making it run up and down each other’s arms, and laughing immoderately, so that all the other passengers obviously doubted our sanity.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2021
He was toweringly tall and as immoderately bearded as Michele.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016
My mother wasn’t conventionally religious but she was immoderately literate, an old-fashioned freethinker and lover of the classics with a skeptical, irreverent turn of mind.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2013
The problem, he says, is that “if you use close-ups immoderately, then when you need to make a more dramatic point, you have no other option but to use extreme close-ups.”
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2012
Harry opened the book at random and saw a full-page photograph of two teenage boys, both laughing immoderately with their arms around each other’s shoulders.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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