For the second time, Scathing Online Schoolmarm has caught someone using exuberant when they mean exorbitant. The first one was
Rehoboth Beach is Delaware’s most overrated destination mainly due to the cost of parking and its exuberant enforcement of parking meters.
I think the writer probably had excessive in mind along with exorbitant. Whatever.
And there’s this.
Ball told him that was “a felony,” but she wouldn’t report it. She just kept prescribing him exuberant amounts of oxycodone.
March 21st, 2024 at 2:07PM
I concur with Dmitry, although the sentence in question is ill-composed. Try “Rehoboth, where the parking rates are exorbitant, and the enforcers are exuberant.”