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

While we weren’t making an actual game, and I’m no professional actor, I did have attempt to rein in my desire to overact, thinking I needed big bombastic movements for animators to play with.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 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

He loved to exaggerate, to act and overact the momentary part, to exercise his lungs and muscles, and to speak and laugh with his whole body.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis