exorbitance
Example Sentences
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The exorbitance of Park Place, the alien sound of Kamchatka and Irkutsk — these were backward-feeling games that urged ravenous competition.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
“Do you need to have all this excess and exorbitance spent on making a bathroom experience fun and exciting?”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
And sadness, like exorbitance, depends entirely upon what it’s being compared to.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 11, 2019
What's interesting about all this is not that people at the bottom of the market get fleeced, but rather that those same tactics – complexity and exorbitance – are deployed by the mainstream as well.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
One week it was said to be the exorbitance of Mme.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Vocabulary lists containing exorbitance
Second Treatise of Government
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