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intemperate

 adjective
     
in‧tem‧per‧ate formal
1 intemperate language or behaviour shows a lack of control, which other people think is unacceptable:
the judge's intemperate outburst
2 regularly drinking too much alcohol
—intemperance noun [uncountable]
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