Distempered
[dɪs'tempəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Distemper
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Diseased, disordered, out of order.[2]. Immoderate, intemperate, inordinate, unregulated.
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Examples
- You'll be walking in your sleep next, my woman, and playing the whole round of your distempered antics. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Why hovered before my distempered vision the mere furniture, while the rooms and the locality were gone? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I panted for enterprises beyond my childish exploits, and formed distempered dreams of future action. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In Italy they naturally took us for distempered Garibaldians, and set a gunboat to look for any thing significant in our changes of uniform. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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