[ adj ] beyond normal limits <adj.all> excessive chargesa book of inordinate length his dress stops just short of undue elegance unreasonable demands
Inordinate \In*or"di*nate\, a. [L. inordinatus disordered. See {In-} not, and {Ordinate}.] Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world. ``Inordinate desires.'' --Milton. ``Inordinate vanity.'' --Burke. -- {In*or"di*nate*ly}, adv. -- {In*or"di*nate*ness}, n.
"He ought to get out," said Byrd. "The country cannot have confidence in the Justice Department when the top law enforcement officer obviously has to spend an inordinate amount of his time defending himself.
You had premised your opposition to statehood the last time on the inordinate share of federal funds that went into the local budget, and I think that's a thing that has been clarified since then.
Foreign R&D centres take an inordinate time to establish credibility with staff at their home country bases, he says.
But then if Mr. Menem is uptight, it is understandable. The president seems to be having an inordinate amount of trouble with his in-laws.
And even if it were, why did Gorby emerge in the "evil-empire" 1980s rather than in the "inordinate fear of communism" Carter years?
This may lead to some patients waiting inordinate periods of time.
Hostages, Palestinians and domestic Israeli developments all receive inordinate coverage because they involve the U.S. or Israel or both.
As the overheated rhetoric suggests, both presidential candidates have spent an inordinate amount of time discussing their plans for fighting drugs.
That fight, he said, stemmed from Mecham's resentment that he "took an inordinate public beating" over eliminating the state's Martin Luther King holiday for executive branch workers when it was really the attorney general's idea.
"Companies were complaining they had to figure out several different depreciations and were spending an inordinate amount of time and energy on this," said Maxine Champion, chief lobbyist for LTV Corp., the Dallas-based steel company.
As a former doer, but now one of the latter breed, I bow my head in acknowledgement - adding only that when achievers make a mess of things, we critics get inordinate enjoyment out of feeding on their flesh. That is what has happened to the government.
This raises some fear that unions may exert inordinate control over the certification process, or that they might effectively force new teachers to enter the profession through union membership.
The problem with a lenient approach like the US Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedure, which leaves directors in charge, is that companies can rack up inordinate losses at the creditors' expense for too long.
"I don't have any intention of furnishing others an opportunity to call Japan an economic animal by displaying an inordinate interest" in having a Japanese national head the IMF, Mr. Hashimoto said with a laugh.
Ms. Sanger added, "We are not talking about an inordinate amount of a time extension.
Trapped indoors, the gas poses health threats that can far surpass heavy smoking or inordinate exposure to X-rays.