as in too
beyond a normal or acceptable limit
there's no need to be overly careful about the rough draft, since we'll polish it afterwards
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Recent Examples of overly
Was there ever an idea of Short hosting the show in character as his overly excited but often misinformed Hollywood entertainment reporter character Jiminy Glick?
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
In a new interview on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, Monroe dismisses with the tendency to overly dissect genres.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
The pulse setting turns the food processor on for one quick burst so your ingredients don’t get overly chopped.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Goldberg was a cartoonist whose works featured overly complicated machines trying to do simple tasks.
—Tad Weber, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
In a new interview on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, Monroe dismisses with the tendency to overly dissect genres.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
The pulse setting turns the food processor on for one quick burst so your ingredients don’t get overly chopped.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Goldberg was a cartoonist whose works featured overly complicated machines trying to do simple tasks.
—Tad Weber, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overly
Adverb
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Manny Machado followed with a walk, and he too was thrown out trying to take second on the back end of a double steal.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
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Bouchard has his own school-age memories of Woodward Avenue, too, from meeting a prom date to eating his first fast food there.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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And as a result, taxpayer money was unduly shoveled into the coffers of states, healthcare providers and insurance plans.—
Jeremy Nighohossian,
Boston Herald,
3 Aug. 2025
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Horrific as his killing by a white policeman was, it was unduly racialised by BLM.—
Book Marks
August 1,
Literary Hub,
1 Aug. 2025
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Any other entity, whether at the state, federal, or local level, should be extremely cautious in construing this new law as a ready-to-go template.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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But the box-office failure of Long Shot, his extremely charming 2018 team-up with Charlize Theron, coincided with the business as a whole backing away from the genre.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Overly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overly. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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