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
Yet Napoleon III. was lavish of rewards to his adherents, while the Emperor William was, to an excessive degree, chary of recompense.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth
These internal conflicts between feeling and reason, the perplexities with which his spirit wrestled, did not affect our author to an excessive degree.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum
The which, and all the others, are most fertile to an excessive degree, and this extremely so.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.
