Both Uses of
inordinate
in
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- In later years I was to confront the stereotyped picture of gay song-singing cotton pickers with such inordinate rage that I was told even by fellow Blacks that my paranoia was embarrassing.†
p. 8.9
- His good looks and popularity had made him so inordinately conceited that they blinded him to that possibility.†
p. 281.9 *
Definition:
excessive or more than is reasonable or normal