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inordinate

/ɪnˈɔɹd(ə)nət/ adjective C2
  1. Excessive; unreasonable or inappropriate in magnitude.
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After the ladies had departed for the ball, whither all the entreaties of Madame de Villefort had failed in persuading him to accompany them, the procureur had shut himself up in his study, according to his custom, with a heap of papers calculated to alarm anyone else, but which generally scarcely satisfied his inordinate desires.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 735 · C1

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