inordinately
Example Sentences
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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
And, of course, Joe Biden is inordinately proud of his own personal Irish heritage - he had ancestors in County Mayo and County Louth.
From BBC • Aug. 17, 2024
And “Schindler’s List,” it’s worth acknowledging, is inordinately at times almost indecently entertaining.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023
His good looks and popularity had made him so inordinately conceited that they blinded him to that possibility.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.