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Adverb
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The bill would task the state’s attorney general with establishing the guidelines to determine unreasonably excessive prices for captive consumers, such as at airports, hospitals, sporting events, large festivals or in correctional facilities.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026 -
Fernández was said to have – not unreasonably – anti-trust concerns about Disney’s dominant sports market position.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
21 Dec. 2025
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Last September, Alan Cumming lit up the 2025 Emmy Awards ceremonies in three sharp Tanner Fletcher looks each featuring obscenely oversized bows that perfectly suited his divinely androgynous sense of style.—
Jonathan Borge,
InStyle,
29 Jan. 2026
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Is the obscenely neon orange color necessary?—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
6 Jan. 2026
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Unbelievably, unconscionably, ICE agents are killing American citizens such as Renee Good.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2026
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Many have noted that the health care system in the United States is an inefficient, unconscionably expensive, gawd-awful mess.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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For the majority of its two-plus hours, Iron Lung feels like watching someone else play an unbearably tedious game.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2026
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Small black flies marched along his unbearably long lashes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Instead of keeping the ball tucked, Mitchell tried to extend it and inexcusably lost the ball.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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After the storm, attempts to rescue people trapped in their homes and to get them out of town were inexcusably slow.—
Nicholas Lemann,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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Duvalier and his family lived extravagantly while Haiti suffered in poverty and violence.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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In November, the content creator, who first established a tradition of dressing extravagantly for her relatives' holiday parties in 2021, pulled up to her family function in a look inspired by a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
25 Dec. 2025
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“Extortionately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extortionately. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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