immoderate

Infinitive complement

believe: It is not immoderate to believe that we should defend ourselves against our enemies.

Modifies a noun

• consumption: To the immoderate consumption of tea is due in a great measure the large increase of those complaints which are usually termed nervous.
• drinking: Whenever immoderate drinking is indulged in, iniquitous results may be fully expected to intervene.
• laughter: Insolent words, vain acts, immoderate laughter, complaints and murmurs when they are perceived do not go unpunished.
• quantity: Notable for the unusually belligerent drunkenness it is capable of inducing if consumed in immoderate quantities and an acquired taste.
• language: Quite how they imagined their immoderate language would endear them to potential customers I fail to appreciate.