inordinate
Example Sentences
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Investors can also take comfort from the fact that the fund’s managers do not assume an inordinate amount of risk.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
“A lot of the big philanthropies, you know, they’ll spend inordinate amounts of resources trying to retire a handful of coal plants in one country,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
In two recent games they have played with 10 men versus 11 for inordinate amounts of time and yet won both of those matches.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
Depositing an inordinate amount of bins around town is just not the way to encourage people to properly dispose of their organic waste, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2025
Harry dawdled behind, taking an inordinate amount of time to do up his bag.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing inordinate
Othello
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Grade 11, List 3
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Negatives with "in"
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