inordinately

Example Sentences

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Mona Yacoubian, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Iran "is inordinately more complex than Venezuela," with more diffuse centers of power.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

The inordinately high number of fatalities at the Hyundai property is an indication of a lax safety culture, said Ahmed Al-Bayati, founding director of the Construction Safety Research Center at Lawrence Technological University, in Michigan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

South Korea has a notoriously high-pressure entertainment industry, with celebrities often held to inordinately high social standards and placed under extreme scrutiny.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024

And “Schindler’s List,” it’s worth acknowledging, is inordinately at times almost indecently entertaining.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

This, perhaps as much as the money, is what keeps Holly going through nausea and pain, and even some of the livelier, bolder women seem inordinately sensitive to how he’s feeling about them.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich