inordinate
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Inordinate time is spent with Hans Zimmer, whose symphonic-synthesizer scores define the current action-spectacle template.
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2017
Inordinate supplies of uniforms . . . are in storage in the military posts of the United States Army.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Inordinate, in-or′di-nāt, adj. beyond usual bounds: irregular: immoderate.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
A victory that will overcome Inordinate desire, To gratify perverted taste, By habit made entire.
From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah
Inordinate conceit alone could conceive Nature to have been made designedly either for our pleasure or our discomfort.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph
Vocabulary lists containing inordinate
Othello
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Grade 11, List 3
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Negatives with "in"
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