excessively

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Against that counsel from a military agency, torture was deployed -- excessively, and it was used in part to extract information from detainees about ties between al Qaeda and Iraq, ties that the best intelligence the administration had access to had already deemed nonexistent, in order to justify the planned invasion -- the chosen war -- in Iraq.

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  1. With excess; in an extreme degree; beyond measure: as, excessively impatient; excessively grieved; the wind blew excessively. The wind is often so excessively hot, that it is like the air of an oven, and people are forced to retire into the lower rooms and to their vaults, and shut themselves close up. Pococke, Description of the East, I. 195. A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side. Addison.
  2. Exceedingly; extremely: as, she was excessively beautiful. [Now only in loose use.] Crébillon said, then he would keep the picture himself—it was excessively like. Walpole, Letters, II. 295.
  3. In excess; intemperately. Which having swallowd up excessively, He soone in vomit up againe doth lay. Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 3.

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  • The pod's batteries have been drained excessively, and I considered this to be a prudent course of action. —  Steele, Allen - [Near-Space 05] - A King of Infinite Space
  • I shall like to see Kean again excessively, and to see him with you too. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • Such a move would come in addition to a swathe of other proposals unveiled by the government last year, including a new penalty of six points on a driving licence for motorists who broke speed limits "excessively" - meaning they could receive a driving ban after two such offences. —  Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
  • Against that counsel from a military agency, torture was deployed -- excessively, and it was used in part to extract information from detainees about ties between al Qaeda and Iraq, ties that the best intelligence the administration had access to had already deemed nonexistent, in order to justify the planned invasion -- the chosen war -- in Iraq. —  Daily Kos
  • (Here he rubbed his hands excessively, and looked round the table for a smile at the bon-mot M. Bouton will pardon me," observed the old officer, "but if he had travelled all over Europe as I have done, he would not wonder at the desire to change an every-day scene for something new. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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