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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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    It seemed to me that Dr Carlisle went on looking at me for an inordinate length of time.†  (source)
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    Harry dawdled behind, taking an inordinate amount of time to do up his bag.†  (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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    Simon hid the fact that he was inordinately pleased by this.†  (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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    Bert was inordinately proud of his skill with a rope, the men thought.†  (source)
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    And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face, or one that baffled him and melted before his eyes; and thus it was that there sprang up and grew apace in the lawyer's mind a singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde.†  (source)
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    They love her inordinately.†  (source)
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