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Meanings of excessively in English

To a degree exceeding normal or proper limits.

overlyto a faulttoo
Usage of excessively in English
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But Tsipras mishandled negotiations particularly badly by taking an excessively confrontational approach.
Reuters
2
However, the constraints on him were not excessively severe at the time.
The South African
3
This is a positive reshaping of the previously excessively negative unionist case.
The Guardian
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Our children are taking to drinking excessively because they are being let.
The Irish Times
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It would appear that I am being charged an excessively high rate.
The Irish Times
6
Keep Exes in the Past Do not talk excessively about your exes.
Ebony
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Where skeletal overgrowth happens, the fingers may become excessively long or thickened.
Harvest Home
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The gold standard may have been excessively maligned by would-be progressive commentators.
The Irish Times
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Sunningdale, as I had feared, was an excessively expensive place to live.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
10
Faults included unsafe trailers, overloaded and unroadworthy vehicles and excessively tired drivers.
The Irish Times
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Letters like this just end up being plaintive, excessively tedious, and ineffective.
The Guardian
12
The jester's inventions are supposed to be amusing but not excessively so.
The White Princess
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In charge of them was an excessively fierce-looking woman, a Miss Wilbraham.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
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Tomans turned out to be Maria Theresa dollars-pure silver and excessively heavy.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
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In an instant his face grew violently red-in another as excessively pale.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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After all, we had stopped the blood libel from becoming excessively murderous.
The fifth servant
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