Meaning & use
Exorbitantly
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To an excessive or unreasonably great degree, especially in price or amount.
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The hotel charged exorbitantly for a simple bottle of water.
Tickets to the sold-out concert were being resold exorbitantly high.
A note on using this word
Exorbitant literally means 'straying from the orbit or track,' from Latin exorbitare, capturing something going far beyond a normal range.
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reasonablymoderately
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