Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not tempered.
- Not brought to the desired state of hardness: as, untempered steel.
- Not brought to a fit or proper state generally; not regulated, moderated, or controlled; not mollified: as, untempered severity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
tempered ; not conditioned by a process. - adjective In the case of a person,
inexperienced ;untested .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not moderated or controlled
- adjective not brought to a proper consistency or hardness
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Examples
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Ambition, and the base counterfeit of love, those two master passions in untempered minds, were the springs of this antipathy.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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His judgments were often much the same kind of untempered emotions as he showed in the matter of the curtains -- his complaint, for example, that a Greek temple was "like a table on four legs: a damned dull thing!"
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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Then there are those whose steel is mild and untempered, they will bend and not take and edge.
Why Are The Ammo Shelves Empty? What, Exactly, Are People Afraid Of? 2009
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Otherwise, why not construst robots to dispence with untempered law? citizenjane
Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings 2009
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Then there are those whose steel is mild and untempered, they will bend and not take and edge.
Why Are The Ammo Shelves Empty? What, Exactly, Are People Afraid Of? 2009
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Barbie wore only her clear pink heels, her defiance untempered by her precarious stance on a white Lexus convertible.
Bye-bye Love John Wentworth Chapin 2011
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Inexperience is magnified as a handicap when it is compounded with two further weaknesses: impetuosity and ideology untempered by common sense.
The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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The White House should release this picture untempered, what they hiding?
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Each day I wake as currents thrum through blood and flesh, untempered heart.
Abstinence JP Reese 2011
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For me, it got worse with years of psychology and Zen untempered by real compassion.
Darren Littlejohn: Comfort Rather Than Be Comforted: A 12-Step Buddhist Perspective 2010
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