overact
Example Sentences
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Still, Freeman is the only performer here who doesn’t overact.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023
“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.
From Washington Times • Aug. 17, 2022
No need to project, let alone overact, here; I heard him as clearly as if he were sitting next to me.
From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2022
And so that is why in the theater, the actors tend to be very exaggerated or overact.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2021
My friend was apt to overact his part.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
