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excessively

/ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/ adverb B2
  1. To an excessive degree. · The application form was excessively complicated.
  2. In excess. · He smoked excessively.
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In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 12 · B2
He is so excessively handsome!
Pride and Prejudice, p. 12 · B2
The sisters, on hearing this, repeated three or four times how much they were grieved, how shocking it was to have a bad cold, and how excessively they disliked being ill themselves; and then thought no more of the matter: and their indifference towards Jane, when not immediately before them, restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her original dislike.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 36 · B2
This was his plan of amends--of atonement--for inheriting their father’s estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 77 · B2

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