(in-TEM-prit), adjective
Refers to a person who indulges his own whims and fancies without regard to other people’s feelings or inconvenience.
“Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the INTEMPERATE act of pursuing them.” – Laurence Sterne, Irish-born English novelist and Anglican clergyman