[
UK
/ɪnˈɔːdɪnətli/
]
[ US /ˌɪˈnɔɹdənətɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈnɔɹdənətɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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extremely
it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate
she was inordinately smart
How To Use inordinately In A Sentence
- To them the restaurant, with its warm yellow lights shining at the end of an otherwise unlit road, must seem inordinately welcoming. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
- Now, Rome—not the society of people in the city, but their collective exoskeleton, the city itself—is a sublime and inordinately complicated object lesson in the substantiality of buildings and other made things, in their resistance to abstraction. The Forever City
- The care of the publique must oversway all private interests, for it is a true rule that perticuler estates cannot subsist in the ruinue of the publique." sic It's very difficult to hear the arguments against taxing the inordinately wealthy as reflecting anything of that evangelical sentiment and social imperative. Frank G. Kirkpatrick: Searching For The Common Good In Political Discourse
- This gives him ample time to indulge in ad-libbing, a pastime of which he seems inordinately fond.
- Or have the Blogging Tards Tories – of whom Stephen Taylor must be inordinately proud – given up any attempt to hide their racist mouthbreather tendencies? Is it just me ...
- FEC, which would have to vote to launch an audit, is prone to deadlocking on issues that inordinately impact one party or the other - like approving a messy and high-profile probe of a sitting president. Never Yet Melted
- They went into the lobby where the doorman, inordinately well-dressed to be pushing buzzers, gave I0C a sharp blast.
- I'd feel inordinately pleased with myself were it not for the fact that the ones I spent all morning doing are rather flat and dull.
- He kept shtum and didn't embarrass her once for the following 11 years and, instead, contented himself with being an almost mute second fiddle to a woman of whom he was inordinately proud.
- Covetousness is not only in getting riches unjustly, but in loving them inordinately, which is a key that opens the door to all sin. The Lord's Prayer