She was inordinately smart. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : He drank an inordinate amount of wine. ,an inordinate admirer of beauty. ,inordinate hours. From Dictionary.com.
"The project is inordinately complicated," she says. From Wordnik.com. [WALKER ON THE WILD SIDE] Reference
She shut herself up in a room and grieved inordinately. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Clerks are sconced a pint for 'very inordinately' knocking. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
In the past she had never been inordinately fond of New York. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
The fashion of dining inordinately late in this country is foolish. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
Of "indifferent" in the above sense but inordinately proud of their. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
They were a great success and Louisa was inordinately proud of them. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
Russians have always been inordinately proud of their country's size. From Wordnik.com. [BIG BROTHER AND 'LITTLE RUSSIANS'] Reference
Fortunately for the kangaroos, their boat was inordinately seaworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble on Kangaroo Island] Reference
"I am inordinately proud of them," returned Elfreda, looking gratified. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
"" Whatever I engage in I must push inordinately, '' Carnegie once wrote. From Wordnik.com. [A Tycoon For Our Times?] Reference
It was an inconspicuous, inordinately ordinary medal, the Galactic Medal of. From Wordnik.com. [Medal of Honor] Reference
But the long list of caveats does not inordinately tie our forecasting hands. From Wordnik.com. [The World in 2030] Reference
His father said he was a fool, and was inordinately fond of him nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
Whenever a man coveteth anything inordinately, anon is he disquieted in himself. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
He was a smallish man, well rounded, pleasant-faced, and inordinately proud of his name. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
"It's a filthy habit," he said, inordinately relieved by her astuteness and yet with wonder. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
"I had a mind not to wait here," she said; "you were an inordinately long time, Mr. Croyden.". From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
I hope she is right, yet I fear the radiation level of the ship has become inordinately high. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
For a while in the 1980s and 1990s, economic planners in Asia were inordinately fond of geometry. From Wordnik.com. [Do The Math] Reference
Some of the missions made us nervous but I wouldn't say that we were inordinately bothered by fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
As my profile inched upward, the gossip magazines became inordinately interested in our relationship. From Wordnik.com. [The Bradlee Files] Reference
He put a hand into his pocket and it emerged with a small, inordinately ordinary bit of ribbon and metal. From Wordnik.com. [Medal of Honor] Reference
Lawyers are glamorized inordinately in the States, but the law is not a productive or constructive profession. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Those foreign graduates who decide to stay on in America have contributed inordinately to our culture of innovation. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble with Going Global] Reference
A perfect example is the field of psychiatry, which has become inordinately influenced by the biological school of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution?] Reference
By the third week of the campaign, he seemed wary of deviating from his inordinately bland and content-free scripted remarks. From Wordnik.com. [How Tony Blair Won] Reference
Salt marshes are also especially favoured by all the pigeon family in quest of salt, of which they seem to be inordinately fond. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
In some of the double-flowered apples which have been previously alluded to, the flower-stalk is inordinately long when compared with the adjacent ones. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The ordinary lens may be used unless of inordinately long focus, when it becomes inconvenient on account of the great distance between negative and lens. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
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