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Перевод: inordinate

[прилагательное]
беспорядочный; несдержанный; неумеренный; чрезмерный

Тезаурус:

1. Mrs Sparsit's great-aunt, "an immensely fat old woman, with an inordinate appetite for butcher's meat, and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years".
2. Pop singer Rod Stewart took inordinate pride in his brief time as a professional with Brentford and would make well-publicized appearances to support Scotland.
3. During the period 1947-;51, an inordinate delay on the part of the government was experienced in bringing forward the requisite bill legalizing adoption, despite considerable pressure from prospective adoptive parents and adoption agencies.
4. Impressive inspirations mix with the coarsest triteness; there is an inordinate amount of padding and bombast; the reliance on formulae is the most shameless since Telemann.
5. Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles, she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they wouldn't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way.
6. The standards and safety measures now required for the care of the elderly and disabled mean that houses used, for example, as Cheshire Homes, can only be brought up to current standards at inordinate expense and involving radical alteration of the historic interiors.
7. Even Art finds himself overcome at times by incredulity or revulsion, especially in the section of this second volume, where he confronts problems posed by the first's inordinate success in 1986.
8. As he went up behind her, step by step, eyes fixed on the sensuous movements of her dark young limbs, he half noticed the seemingly inordinate number of doors which opened on to the landings and he could not avoid picking up the predominating odour of curry.
9. From time to time, national spin doctors - or "medecins du spin", as we say around here - would emerge to say something or nothing at inordinate and chauvinistic length.
10. It is conceivable that the forceful suppression of women's inordinate sexual demands was a pre-requisite to the dawn of every modern civilization, and almost every human culture.
11. Suffice it to say here that the law in this area has been roundly condemned by the courts as being of "inordinate complexity exceeding the worst excesses of a taxing statute".
12. The joke was hardly likely to have them holding their ribs in Helsinki but it did reflect on the inordinate importance that gambling plays in the lives of Scottish footballers.
13. While this is understandable, it has led to an inordinate number of successful appeals.