inordinate in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

inordinate in the PONS Dictionary

inordinate Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

an inordinate amount of sth
una quantità smisurata di qc

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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The town became a coaching centre, which accounts for the inordinate number of inns that were formerly in the vicinity of the market place.
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The consequent personnel interchangeability presumably prevented the creation of warlord fiefs and the development of inordinate personal loyalties within the military establishment.
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When there is an inordinate instability, exchange rate uncertainty generates extra costs and reduces profits for firms.
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He would find an area, a subject matter that interested him, and he would return to it almost obsessively for an inordinate amount of time.
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There is no limit on the fine or the term of imprisonment that may be imposed provided the sentence is not inordinate.
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Yet an inordinate amount of our procurement effort has been wasted in buying unneeded material and equipment.
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In the purgative way, when the appetites and inordinate passions still possess considerable strength, mortification and self-denial are to be practised more extensively.
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On the first place there is the pleasure, and thus inordinate fondness of play is opposed to eutrapelia.
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Even tracing a portion large enough to produce an image takes an inordinate amount of time if the sampling is not intelligently restricted.
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This hostility yielded, among other things, an inordinate amount of publicity about human rights issues.
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