overqualified
adjective
over·qual·i·fied
ˌō-vər-ˈkwä-lə-ˌfīd 
: having more education, training, or experience than a job calls for
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They didn't hire her because she was overqualified for the job.
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Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2025
McHale stars as Frank Shaw, an overqualified, over-opinionated Animal Control officer who has an almost superhuman ability to understand animals.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 Dec. 2025
The Ed Gein Story and All’s Fair were met with critical hostility — the first is a thematically repetitive and exploitative condemnation of true crime and the audience who loves it, the second a bizarrely overqualified ensemble of acting titans playing second fiddle to Kim Kardashian.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
The insanely overqualified Alfre Woodard and John Slattery play Sidney’s CIA superiors, though they’re physically isolated from the action in Langley and thus sparingly used.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Overqualified.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overqualified. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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