to an excessive degree
Example Sentences
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It may be that this group’s winner will be mediocre to an excessive degree.
From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2014
Nicaragua argued the territorial rights extending out from the islets' shores deprived it of offshore economic rights to an excessive degree.
From Reuters • Nov. 19, 2012
People may wonder whether his standard was not, to an excessive degree, a standard of subtlety rather than of creative imagination—at least, in his later period.
From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert
Many dogs are sensitive to an excessive degree, so sensitive indeed that any correction of them, beyond such as can be conveyed by a word, amounts to positive cruelty.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
In case he is true, it was certainly carrying caution to an excessive degree for the commodore to retreat before getting some idea of what his antagonists really were.
From The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans by Roosevelt, Theodore
