All 3 Uses
inordinate
in
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene by Greene
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- He had a sharp crooked nose jutting out of a lean dancer's face; his neatness gave an effect of inordinate ambition in the shabby city.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Captain Fellows was touched with fear; he was aware of an inordinate love which robbed him of authority.†
Chpt 1.3
- You already think me a man, I know, of inordinate ambitions — well, I want Concepcion to have a better school — and that means a better presbytery too, of course.†
Chpt 2.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(inordinate) excessive or more than is reasonable or normal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)