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She has an inordinate fear of spiders.inordinate = excessive
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It is a book of inordinate length.
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He wore a General Hood type beard of which he was inordinately vain. (source)inordinately = beyond normal limits
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Harry dawdled behind, taking an inordinate amount of time to do up his bag.† (source)
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So I spent an inordinate amount of time studying for finals, which helped my GPA considerably.† (source)
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I seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time standing in empty classrooms and offices (staring at the floor, nodding my head senselessly) with concerned teachers who asked me to stay after class or pulled me aside to talk.† (source)
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There were an inordinate number of photos of Holiday, and many a shot of my feet or the grass.† (source)
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He smiled slyly, inordinately pleased with himself.† (source)
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Those cost an inordinate amount of money!† (source)
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They love her inordinately.† (source)
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Luckily for my education, there was nothing homosexual in don Balthazar's addiction to young flesh, so his escapades evidenced themselves either as absences from our tutorial sessions or an inordinate amount of attention lavished on memorizing verses from Ovid, Senesh, or Wu.† (source)
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Bert was inordinately proud of his skill with a rope, the men thought.† (source)
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This entire building, in fact, was a treasure trove of bizarre arcana that included a "killer bathtub" responsible for the pneumonic murder of Vice President Henry Wilson, a staircase with a permanent bloodstain over which an inordinate number of guests seemed to trip, and a sealed basement chamber in which workers in 1930 discovered General John Alexander Logan's long-deceased stuffed horse.† (source)
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AND THE SUPERHERO WAS ENORMOUSLY, INORDINATELY PLEASED WITH HIMSELF.† (source)
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Every new dog owner needs one, too, mostly for the advice and reassurance and free counsel veterinarians find themselves spending inordinate amounts of their time dispensing.† (source)
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Holmes seemed inordinately attentive to Gertie and Julia.† (source)
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