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inordinately |
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Translations inordinately [ɪnˈɔːrdɪnətli] adv an inordinately long time → un temps disproportionné inordinately high bank charges → des frais bancaires hors de toute proportion The restaurant is inordinately expensive → Les prix pratiqués par le restaurant sont hors de toute proportion. inordinately proud He is inordinately proud of his wife's achievements → Les exploits de sa femme lui procurent une fierté démesurée. She looked inordinately pleased with herself → Elle affichait un air de satisfaction triomphale. inordinately [ɪˈnɔːdɪnɪtlɪ] adv an inordinately large sum of money → una cifra esorbitante or astronomica an inordinately large amount of food → una quantità esagerata di cibo an inordinately long time → un'infinità di tempo inordinately [ɪˈnɔːdɪnɪtlɪ] adv an inordinately large sum of money → una cifra esorbitante or astronomica an inordinately large amount of food → una quantità esagerata di cibo an inordinately long time → un'infinità di tempo How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Here was a set of new characters who were become inordinately prominent and who persisted in remaining so to the end; and back yonder was an older set who made a large noise and a great to-do for a little while and then suddenly played out utterly and fell down the well. Every being, which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs or seeds, must suffer destruction during some period of its life, and during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical increase, its numbers would quickly become so inordinately great that no country could support the product. Descendants of these original colonists were for a while inordinately proud of their genealogy; but in time the blood became so widely diffused that it ran in the veins practically of all Americans. |
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