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is inordinate

adjective

Excessive; unreasonable or inappropriate in magnitude; extreme.

Exact(3)

"This is inordinate," Jones said during a news conference Wednesday.

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.

And now, as a result of that history, there is inordinate inequality.

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Her pride in us was inordinate, nonetheless.

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".

Even when the awaited decision is little more than a formality, there can be inordinate delays, which cause profound distress to clients, she says.

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".

Some of the most important concerns are inordinate depletions of lung reserves (in particular, emphysema), the facilitation of cancer metastasis to the lung, the facilitation of immunologic deficits with the concomitant expression of opportunistic organisms, and amplification of cardiovascular abnormalities (in particular, ischemic heart disease).

"There is an inordinate amount of vacant land.

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