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Immoderately

Immoderately \Im*mod"er*ate*ly\, adv. In an immoderate manner; excessively.

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immoderately

adv. In an immoderate manner.

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immoderately
  1. adv. in an immoderate manner; "he eats immoderately" [syn: without moderation] [ant: moderately]

  2. to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation; "his prices are unreasonably high" [syn: unreasonably] [ant: reasonably, reasonably]

Usage examples of "immoderately".

She stood now behind his chair, Sir Raymond Orton a few paces from her, and my Lady Lowestoft, laughing immoderately at something Mr Selwyn was saying to her, not far distant.

I was critical of Rochdale, too: and totally, enthusiastically, immoderately committed to it.

The words were scarcely out of my lips when he embraced me, calling me his cousin, but we all thought that Doctor Gennaro would actually die with laughter, for it seemed impossible to laugh so immoderately without risk of life.

Isle of Sky, talk, ex cathedra, of his keeping a seraglio, and acknowledge that the supposition had often been in his thoughts, struck me so forcibly with ludicrous contrast, that I could not but laugh immoderately.

On receiving this unexpected reply from a girl I had taken for a maiden, I said to her, "I should never have supposed that you were married, madam." She looked at me with evident surprise for a moment, then she turned towards her friend, and both began to laugh immoderately.

The coloured people of Barbadoes, for reasons best known to themselves, are immoderately proud, and look upon all the negroes who are born on other islands as niggers.

But if we desire to test our power of doing without praise, need we live ill, and that so flagitiously and immoderately as that every one who knows us shall detest us?

Jeanette is mowing the lawn with a power mower and with all that racket, the car horn makes her jump immoderately.

Rushing past an elderly manservant -- Phillips, the club's quiet and tactful majordomo -- and nearly causing the aged butler to drop a tray of Sapphire Gin and Quinine Water cocktails, the immoderately gasping visitor came to a stop at a herd of high-backed leather chairs clustered around a broad table like rhinos at a waterhole on the Rider Haggard estates.

I hadn't had breakfast because it wasn't included in my special room rate, so I was feeling immoderately peckish and began a hunt for cafes, but again Exeter seemed strangely lacking.

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was-in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces-a stunning and final girl.