inordinately
Example Sentences
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Food culture is inordinately fond of nonchalance: meals that are “almost too easy,” cakes that come together “in a snap.”
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Mona Yacoubian, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Iran "is inordinately more complex than Venezuela," with more diffuse centers of power.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
The inordinately high number of fatalities at the Hyundai property is an indication of a lax safety culture, said Ahmed Al-Bayati, founding director of the Construction Safety Research Center at Lawrence Technological University, in Michigan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
Content creators dependent on the app for revenue told the BBC, if it shuts down in the US their lives would change inordinately without the platform.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025
Still other hunter-gatherers in contact with farmers did eventually become farmers, but only after what may seem to us like an inordinately long delay.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
