overclouded

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What should have been a time to regroup, refocus, and rethink has been overclouded by just one more act in the circus known as the 2012 season.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012

If the genius of Mallarmé was obscured by the flatterers that surrounded him, how much more was Wilde’s talent overclouded by the would-be witty, shoddy-elegant, and cheaply-poetical society hangers-on, who covered him with incense?

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

If the genius of Mallarm� was obscured by the flatterers that surrounded him, how much more was Wilde's talent overclouded by the would-be-witty, shoddy-elegant, and cheaply-poetical society hangers-on, who covered him with incense.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

He knew him to be a cute old fox, and that if he gleaned anything it would be at a time when the lawyer's shrewdness was overclouded by fear.

From '?19,000' by Delannoy, Burford

The sky had been overclouded all day, and continued so as the sun went down.

From The Giraffe Hunters by Reid, Mayne