Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; extravagantly.
- In an excessive degree or amount; beyond reasonable limits; inordinately: as, to charge exorbitantly for a service.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
exorbitant manner,excessively .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to an exorbitant degree
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Examples
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These loans are exorbitantly expensive and can drive consumers ever deeper into debt.
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Most of the worth while apps are exorbitantly expensive, like MS Office and Paintshop.
The Problems With A Hackintosh Netbook, Six Months Out | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Moreover, that book reviewers would so exorbitantly praise such a novel, as in fact most of them did, strongly calls into question the standards being applied by those working in that branch of "literary journalism" represented by newspaper book sections.
Book Reviewing 2010
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These loans are exorbitantly expensive and can drive consumers ever deeper into debt.
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Having debunked the prospects for storing wind (or solar) energy given current (or even imagined technology) we are left with an exorbitantly expensive intermittent energy source which when push comes to shove maintenance will be foregone.
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Unnecessary hospital readmissions have become exorbitantly expensive and excessively wasteful.
Diane C. Pinakiewicz: Reduce Unnecessary Hospital Readmissions Diane C. Pinakiewicz 2011
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The phones were somewhat expensive for their day but not exorbitantly so, and the service was not extremely expensive either (at least not under the original rates AT&T was pushing), yet the service failed.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Times Square bombing — where were the cameras? 2010
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But the process of pressuring vulnerable Democrats to go on the record in support of an unpopular, exorbitantly expensive and quite possibly unconstitutional statute has begun.
Mitch McConnell's promise kept on ObamaCare Jennifer Rubin 2011
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Unnecessary hospital readmissions have become exorbitantly expensive and excessively wasteful.
Diane C. Pinakiewicz: Reduce Unnecessary Hospital Readmissions Diane C. Pinakiewicz 2011
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Trust me, if you want to get exorbitantly rich, you must jump ahead of the herd and read my manuscript before I send it to someone else.
We Love You! 2009
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