Synonym: extravagant, exuberant, inordinate, overweening, undue, unreasonable. Similar words: in excess of, aggressive, impressive, progressive, exclusive, massive, exclusively, recession. Meaning: [ɪk'sesɪv] adj. 1. beyond normal limits 2. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings.
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121) Abusive or excessive drinking is harmful not only to society but to the long-term interests of the industry as well.
122) Some students suffer from excessive anxiety, which produces sleeplessness which in turn aggravates the anxiety.
123) The campaign is trying to stop the excessive use of chemicals in farming.
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124) In a civilized world, hours of work should not be continually excessive.
125) Among the adoptees themselves the most highly creative showed an excessive rate of mental illness - as much as 30 percent.
126) She took Oxfordshire Health Authority to court, claiming excessive doses of radiation had crippled her.
127) A company in a dominant position which charges excessive prices for its products may be acting abusively.
128) As in his recordings of the last three Tchaikovsky Symphonies, Klemperer reveals a temperamental antipathy towards excessive emotionalism in Romantic repertoire.
129) She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side.
130) The council has also set up a hotline on for local people to ring if they suffer excessive noise.
131) The new managers did find that their new positions made excessive demands.
132) In the late nineties when workers showed excessive interest in bread-and-butter issues, the revolutionaries denounced their petty-bourgeois, trade-unionist mentality.
133) Problems such as deadlines, noise, marital strife, excessive demands made on our time by others, and so forth.
134) Therefore, the plasma cells produce either an excessive amount of kappa light chains or an excessive amount of lambda light chains.
135) Care has to be taken to make sure no excessive currents can flow during these transients.
136) Factory-farming makes pollution, excessive meat-eating upsets the ecological balance, trapping and hunting can injure habitat, and so on.
137) Cauthen was suspended for four days for excessive use and for hitting Witness Box.
138) Excessive demands are placed on governments by sectional interest groups beyond their capacity to meet them.
139) When the firing broke out, it was like some utterly excessive fireworks display.
140) In manic or bipolar depression, bouts of depression alternate with periods of excessive elation or mania of similar length.
141) But that is hardly an excessive price to pay for cutting risk, in the midst of a tight election campaign.
142) A spinning earth eliminated the excessive speed of rotation currently ascribed to the outer spheres.
143) However, if it is felt that the estimate is excessive, an alternative estimate should be obtained.
144) Trailing edge vibration has been dampened by reinforcement with thin glass fibre rod inserts or mylar overlays, so eliminating excessive noise.
145) Standard medical practice may be ignored, with excessive numbers of drugs or overly expensive formulations being prescribed.
146) This gives a moisture-retentive growing medium, but allows excessive wetness to drain from the roots of the plants.
147) Many governments are very strict about imposing restrictions on the importation of foodstuffs which contain excessive concentrations of heavy metals.
148) They offered no explanation for why they failed to mention the excessive airborne formaldehyde last week.
149) Thousands of pub landlords had been given notices to quit and offered lease agreements with rents widely regarded as excessive.
150) The report had alleged torture of prisoners, rigging of trials, and excessive use of the death penalty.
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