Jimmy Carter scolded Americans for their “inordinate fear of communism.”
Owl monkey offspring get an inordinate amount of care from their fathers.
Then you will spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out how to cover your head up.
Facebook exerts an inordinate amount of control over your life.
Then I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to decide whether or not I will shave.
He seemed to have no inordinate desire for admiration or even for approbation.
It is an inordinate paragraph, outraging all known rules of composition!
Sarah was not only under the influence of distrust, but of inordinate desire.
His inordinate vanity could readily supply the reasons for such a course.
You have yet to learn that it has also an inordinate capacity for swallowing light.
late 14c., "not ordered, lacking order or regularity," from Latin inordinatus "unordered, not arranged," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + ordinatus, past participle of ordinare "to set in order" (see order). Sense of "immoderate, excessive" is from notion of "not kept within orderly limits." Related: Inordinately; inordinateness.
