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Sentences with excessive

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  • ...the alleged use of excessive force by police.
  • Excessive self-defence is to be reintroduced as a partial defence to murder.
  • A couple of research reports highlight the excessive performance fees managers of these types of funds charge and warn that investors will.
  • They said more study is needed before excessive use of video and online games.
  • Drinking, especially excessive drinking, has become a feature of the racing gala.
  • I think, today, it's very sad to see the lack of interest in the actual races and all the excessive drinking.
  • Excessive applies to that which goes beyond what is proper, right, or usual [excessive demands]; exorbitant is applied to that which is unreasonably excessive and often connotes a greedy desire for more than is just or due [exorbitant prices]; extravagant, immoderate both imply excessiveness resulting from lack of restraint or of prudence [extravagant praise, immoderate laughter]; inordinate implies a going beyond the orderly limits of convention or the bounds of good taste [his inordinate pride]
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