exorbitance
Example Sentences
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The exorbitance of Park Place, the alien sound of Kamchatka and Irkutsk — these were backward-feeling games that urged ravenous competition.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023
“Do you need to have all this excess and exorbitance spent on making a bathroom experience fun and exciting?”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022
And sadness, like exorbitance, depends entirely upon what it’s being compared to.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 11, 2019
The small scale helps: no chance of the various "treat stops" and catering points being overwhelmed, although with prices such as a ludicrous £2.70 for an ice lolly, a self-policing exorbitance is also in play.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2012
In truth, we can hardly bring the whole exorbitance of that viciousness and absurdity home to our own minds unless we contemplate it as reflected in the mirror of a simile.
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander
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Second Treatise of Government
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