What is "exorbitantly"

Usage examples of "exorbitantly".

The Plaza was only ten blocks away, but we tipped the irate cabbie exorbitantly.

The great landlords of this county are less attacked than others by popular orators, mainly because their rents are not exorbitantly high in the first place.

The non-problematical problem was Confed-initiated, channelled through the Thirteen to Thoughtworld - and at a high price to the Confed, since the Thirteen knew how to charge exorbitantly for services rendered.

Of course one does see that if they sing calypsos all night in the no doubt ghastly tenements he exorbitantly lets to them and if they roar insults and improper suggestions at non-black teenagers, it doesn't send up the tone.

The primitive Tyrlanians were avid for simple tools and weapons of metal, paying exorbitantly in the furs, gems, and pharmaceutically useful juices which made this planet worth the attention of the Polesotechnic League.

To date, I had stolen, lied, deceived, dissembled and burgled, I had used the weakness of a relative to winkle information out of him, I had scarcely talked to my God for two weeks and I had used the works of the Unsaved almost as they did themselves, telephoning, travelling by car and bus and train and plane, entering retail premises and spending an entire evening enjoying a large proportion of all the exorbitantly hedonistic delights one of the world's largest cities could provide, though admittedly this last sin had been while in the company of a forceful and determinedly sensualistic relative from an alien culture where the pursuit of fun, profit and self-fulfilment was regarded practically as a commandment.