excessively
Example Sentences
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"Bones are overly smooth, spines unnaturally straight, lungs overly symmetrical, blood vessel patterns excessively uniform, and fractures appear unusually clean and consistent, often limited to one side of the bone."
From Science Daily
Kaley has since been diagnosed with body dysmorphia, a condition which causes people to worry excessively about their physical appearance and do not see themselves as others do.
From BBC
“But broad-based and open-ended measures may add excessively to demand and strengthen the pass-through.”
That leaves the BOJ in a familiar bind: Hike too soon and risk clipping fragile growth, or hold back and risk damaging household confidence, plus U.S. scrutiny if the yen weakens excessively.
To describe the phenomenon, he used the slang word "glazing" -- to excessively praise something.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
