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be inordinate
adjective
Excessive; unreasonable or inappropriate in magnitude; extreme.
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Even when the awaited decision is little more than a formality, there can be inordinate delays, which cause profound distress to clients, she says.
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Her pride in us was inordinate, nonetheless.
"This is inordinate," Jones said during a news conference Wednesday.
The Filey horizon was inordinate and its menace delighted him.
So there has been inordinate pressure on "Two Boys" to be a success.
Five years later, Oscar Wilde wrote in an album called "Mental Photographs, an Album for Confessions of Tastes, Habits, and Convictions" that his distinguishing feature was "inordinate self-esteem".
With Ramus, rhetoric discarded its principles of amplification, leaving the passions to be discussed primarily by "moral philosophers," who battled heatedly over which were ordinate and which were inordinate passions.
Donald Knapp, who owns two homes in Mulberry Point, one of which he rents to academics, said he had spoken out in the past when he felt new houses going up in the neighborhood were "inordinate in size".
As previously mentioned, the determination of whether a delay is inordinate is not based on the length of the delay alone, but on contextual factors, including the nature of the various rights at stake in the proceedings, in the attempt to determine whether the community's sense of fairness would be offended by the delay.
But nevertheless he agreed that the delay was inordinate.
In another sense, pride is inordinate self-esteem or vanity, an excessively high opinion of one's qualities, accomplishments, or status that can make one arrogant and contemptuous of others.
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