To an unusually or disproportionately large degree; excessively.
the information was inordinately vetted and censored
as submodifier negotiations took an inordinately long time
Example sentencesExamples
- His disregard of proportion is shown by his inordinately long quotations from the poets.
- It is intended to be a black comedy—a genre of which I am inordinately fond.
- The four main characters are inordinately involved with their respective bodies.
- Byron's inordinately favorable reputation amongst Russians survived the revolution of 1917.
- Recent work on Don Juan has drawn on a considerable range of theoretical approaches in order to explicate an inordinately complex text.
- In the past 20 years, landscapers have grown inordinately fond of using male trees.
- Recognizing "the energy expended in a shoe heel" seems like an inordinately modest reckoning of a life's work.
- He's even lost a T-shirt to an inordinately hungry squirrel.
- The brothers shared a wince at the memory of the snotty chef their mother was inordinately fond of.
- The question is whether these agents of economic growth are not being stifled in the protection of inordinately high returns on shareholders interest.