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

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

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