Thesaurus / inordinate
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Each case involves alleged sex trafficking of a minor — a crime that carries inordinate scorn relative to other crimes and even relative to its potential prison sentence.
NOT GOOD FOR MATT GAETZAARON BLAKEAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST
If you have a pool, you probably spend an inordinate amount of time dreaming of this day all winter.
BEST POOL VACUUM: CLEAN UP YOUR SUMMER SWIMMING SPOT NOWPOPSCI COMMERCE TEAMMARCH 11, 2021POPULAR SCIENCE
What’s more, the Capitol insurrection on January 6 featured an inordinate number of veterans in the attacking mob.
THE PENTAGON IS TAKING A MAJOR STEP TO DEAL WITH ITS DIVERSITY PROBLEMSALEX WARDFEBRUARY 12, 2021VOX
But the inordinate and fortuitous gains from land are really only one example from a general class.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
She slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar.
TALES AND FANTASIESROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The companies are declared to be impoverished by the taking of inordinate numbers of apprentices.
THE INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH GILDSFRANCIS AIDEN HIBBERT
And was the empty purse supposed to be especially significant of an inordinate fondness for phonograph music—or what?
MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVEELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
He fought back his despair, his jealousy, his inordinate fear.
QUINALICE HEGAN RICE
He had, however, become independent at too early an age, and this had brought into play his natural inordinate vanity.
He had, like most Frenchmen, an inordinate vanity, and loved incense from all ranks and conditions.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IXJOHN LORD
WORDS RELATED TO INORDINATE
- abundant
- bountiful
- copious
- effusive
- exaggerated
- excessive
- extravagant
- exuberant
- first-class
- free
- generous
- gorgeous
- grand
- immoderate
- impressive
- improvident
- inordinate
- intemperate
- liberal
- lush
- luxuriant
- luxurious
- munificent
- openhanded
- opulent
- plentiful
- plush
- posh
- prodigal
- profligate
- profusive
- prolific
- riotous
- ritzy
- sumptuous
- swanky
- thriftless
- unreasonable
- unrestrained
- unsparing
- unstinging
- wasteful
- wild
- an arm and a leg
- at a premium
- big-ticket
- costly
- dear
- excessive
- exorbitant
- extravagant
- fancy
- high
- highway robbery
- holdup
- immoderate
- inordinate
- invaluable
- lavish
- out of sight
- overpriced
- plush
- posh
- pretty penny
- pricey
- rich
- ritzy
- sky-high
- steep
- stiff
- swank
- too high
- uneconomical
- unreasonable
- upscale
- valuable
- boundless
- disproportionate
- dissipated
- dizzying
- enormous
- exaggerated
- exorbitant
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- immoderate
- indulgent
- inordinate
- intemperate
- limitless
- more
- needless
- over
- overboard
- overkill
- overmuch
- plethoric
- prodigal
- profligate
- recrementitious
- redundant
- self-indulgent
- sky-high
- steep
- stiff
- stratospheric
- super
- superabundant
- superfluous
- supernatural
- too many
- towering
- unbounded
- unconscionable
- undue
- unmeasurable
- unreasonable
- way out
- boundless
- disproportionate
- dissipated
- dizzying
- enormous
- exaggerated
- exorbitant
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- immoderate
- indulgent
- inordinate
- intemperate
- limitless
- more
- needless
- over
- overabundant
- overboard
- overkill
- plethoric
- prodigal
- profligate
- recrementitious
- redundant
- self-indulgent
- sky-high
- steep
- stiff
- stratospheric
- super
- superabundant
- superfluous
- supernatural
- too many
- towering
- unbounded
- unconscionable
- undue
- unmeasurable
- unreasonable
- way out
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.