inordinate
IPA: ɪnˈɔrdʌnɪt
adjective
- Excessive; unreasonable or inappropriate in magnitude.
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Examples of "inordinate" in Sentences
- I agree, but if progressives are only 20% you spend in inordinate amount of time harping on them.
- You will no longer be in debt up to your eyeballs and taking what some might call inordinate risks.
- Indeed, pride -- defined as the inordinate love of oneself -- was the sin that brought down Satan and the other rebellious angels.
- Yet so inordinate is the sex-distinction of the human race that the whole field of human progress has been considered a masculine prerogative.
- _I answer that, _ As stated above (A. 1), fear is a sin through being inordinate, that is to say, through shunning what ought not to be shunned according to reason.
- And that, in turn, has led to what Mr. Prince describes as an inordinate focus on every bad news blip, a process fed by the celebrity permabear analysts who rarely encounter a positive development they can't discount.
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