All 5 Uses of
exorbitant
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I may get my exorbitant profit-or Taggart Transcontinental may crash before I collect it.†
Chpt 1.4 *exorbitant = a lot more than is reasonable or typical
- The office suited him; it contained nothing but the few pieces of furniture he needed, all of them harshly simplified down to their essential purpose, all of them exorbitantly expensive in the quality of materials and the skill of design.†
Chpt 1.4exorbitantly = in a manner that requires a lot more than is reasonable or typical
- The article had come out as a collection of sentences that gave him exorbitant praise and garbled every thought he had expressed.†
Chpt 2.1exorbitant = a lot more than is reasonable or typical
- No one has had to wonder why a track laborer is using such exorbitant amounts of electricity.†
Chpt 3.8
- Most of the rural population had long since been reduced to the life of those ages when artificial light was an exorbitant luxury, and a sunset put an end to human activity.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
a lot more than is reasonable or typical -- often said of price