After all, obtrusive ads suck battery life, use inordinate amounts of data, have long download times that retard the speed of your phone, and often occupy massive amounts of precious screen real estate.
Fracking uses inordinate amounts of water, and pollutes it as well.
"It seems that Fox News has made an editorial decision to use an inordinate amount of video of bikini-clad coeds to support their coverage of the violent Mexican drug cartels," said a State Department spokesman.
Cancer cells use an inordinate amount of your body's energy and can affect your metabolism, leading to weight loss.
An inordinate number, it seemed, used it to replace their thatched roofs, which are not only lousy but also weirdly expensive, as they need to be patched every few months with a special kind of grass.
Professors Painter and Gerhardt are correct in pointing out the damage being done to our judicial system by the inordinate number of filibusters used in recent years to block judicial appointments, but their solution is impractical.
(Mullan's trawling of individual words throws up, for example, an inordinate amount of "blushing", used almost as shorthand for responsiveness. And there are 15 "blunders" in Emma: nobody's editor would allow that now).
Madden, who has an apartment at the Dakota and two sons who went to Ivy League colleges, reads books, too, but has the good sense to keep any evidence off the air, going so far as to pretend during last year's Super Bowl broadcast that he didn't know how to use the word "inordinate".
Because boxing has no single governing organisation and its fighters are not unionised, promoters used to wield inordinate market power.
Apart from radical Islam, the other pretext the Pakistani military uses for its inordinate grip on power is the external enemy.
