excessiveness
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Some big institutions have turned increasingly negative on executive pay packages, especially those with the red flags of excessiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
My issue now is with the excessiveness I find in holidays and birthdays.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022
Its crazy excessiveness wasn’t a 1970s-era lapse in taste; like the horned headdress of Wagner’s Brünnhilde, it was the whole point.
From Time ● Dec. 27, 2016
That’s a result of corporate boards attempting to respond to years of criticism about excessiveness from Main Street America, regulators and even candidates on the presidential trail this year.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2016
There are certain enormities in this man-of-war world that often secure impunity by their very excessiveness.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
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