immoderately
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Their North Star, Irene, played by Parker Posey, is a moderately successful and immoderately self-involved actress who is “theater famous, not famous famous.”
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023
Now here’s the thing about immoderately talented chefs such as Dungca and Cunanan: Whatever project to which they attach themselves, whether fine dining or fast casual, the food always rises to their level.
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021
He can respond immoderately if he thinks he’s been crossed.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017
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 hearth smoked immoderately, given the dampness and warmth of the night.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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