overact

Example Sentences

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“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.

From Washington Times • Aug. 17, 2022

That may cause audiences not to really believe in the performances, but in film, because this acting happens in front of the camera, you don’t have to overact.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2021

She remembers turning up at castings as recently as five years ago, recording self-tapes, running lines with her mother, who could be counted on to overact.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2019

Some of the performers in smaller roles are less artful than the cast’s standouts, and one or two overact.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2016

They can perversely ignore it, though they will cripple themselves in the process, will overact their part and come to grief.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter