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inordinate
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    He had a healthy dose of little-man syndrome and an inordinate amount of body hair.†  (source)
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    Harry dawdled behind, taking an inordinate amount of time to do up his bag.†  (source)
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    He studied her for an inordinate amount of time.†  (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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    Silence hangs over Blackcliff, and my voice seems inordinately loud.†  (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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    AND THE SUPERHERO WAS ENORMOUSLY, INORDINATELY PLEASED WITH HIMSELF.†  (source)
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    Cuff-links gave them an inordinate (if exaggerated) satisfaction, and a real affection for the English language.†  (source)
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    They love her inordinately.†  (source)
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    I should be more inclined to suspect you, Mr. MacQueen, if you displayed an inordinate sorrow at your employer's decease.†  (source)
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    Mary giggled inordinately.†  (source)
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    A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity; these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not easily to be forgotten.†  (source)
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    Simon hid the fact that he was inordinately pleased by this.†  (source)
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