inordinately

Adverb

Meaning

extremely

Source: WordNet

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Examples

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. H. G. Wells

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately. Andrew Carnegie

Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else. Hilaire Belloc

I had a phenomenal memory and could recite long poems by Russian poets, mainly Pushkin. Except for an unusual memory, I was not precocious in any respect and somewhat later, to the chagrin of my father, I was inordinately slow learning the multiplication tables. Mark Kac

What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know.... But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead-yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all. Katherine Mansfield

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak. Ann Beattie

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