Thesaurus / overdone
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It turns out those model solutions were more overdone than we thought.
HOW AN IMPERFECT SNOWSTORM FORECAST TURNED OUT MOSTLY RIGHTJASON SAMENOWFEBRUARY 3, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Sent Alfaretta around to tell us that 'he'd overdone hisself and was obliged to take a vacation.'
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMOND
Then, as he broke an egg that was shockingly overdone, he added spitefully: "Why did you boil your door-knobs?"
A FORTUNE HUNTER; OR, THE OLD STONE CORRALJOHN DUNLOE CARTERET
The truth is, I fear, that the market has been glutted and the business overdone.
OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS TO ALASKACHARLES WARREN STODDARD
Reticence and secretiveness are excellent things in their way; but this too may be overdone.
MY NEW CURATEP.A. SHEEHAN
Humour might suggest that the expression of Patriotism is a trifle overdone.
AMERICAN SKETCHESCHARLES WHIBLEY
Housekeeping may easily be overdone; home-making can never be overdone.
THE EUGENIC MARRIAGE, VOL. 3 (OF 4)W. GRANT HAGUE
Meats especially, when overdone, lose much of their flavor and are far less easily digested than when they are cooked rare.
A CIVIC BIOLOGYGEORGE WILLIAM HUNTER
She was certainly not overdone with charms, but Tiverton in his anger had made her out worse than she was.
THE YEOMAN ADVENTURERGEORGE W. GOUGH
I was quite young, and I went to pieces like an untrained runner who had overdone himself.
THE IRON PUDDLERJAMES J. DAVIS
WORDS RELATED TO OVERDONE
- adulatory
- bombastic
- buttery
- canting
- cloying
- coarse
- extravagant
- fawning
- flattering
- glib
- grandiloquent
- hypocritical
- immoderate
- ingratiating
- inordinate
- insincere
- magniloquent
- mealy-mouthed
- nauseating
- offensive
- oily
- oleaginous
- overdone
- saccharine
- sanctimonious
- slick
- slimy
- smarmy
- smooth
- suave
- sycophantic
- unctuous
- wheedling
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- high falutin'
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- high falutin'
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
- busy
- careful
- complex
- complicated
- decorated
- detailed
- elegant
- embellished
- exact
- extensive
- extravagant
- fancy
- fussy
- high tech
- highly wrought
- imposing
- knotty
- labored
- labyrinthine
- luxurious
- many-faceted
- minute
- ornamented
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overworked
- painstaking
- perfected
- plush
- posh
- precise
- prodigious
- refined
- showy
- skillful
- sophisticated
- studied
- thorough
- with all the extras
- with all the options
- with bells and whistles
- affected
- appropriate
- apt
- aristocratic
- artistic
- august
- chic
- choice
- classic
- clever
- comely
- courtly
- cultivated
- cultured
- dainty
- delicate
- dignified
- effective
- exquisite
- fancy
- fashionable
- fine
- genteel
- graceful
- grand
- handsome
- ingenious
- luxurious
- majestic
- modish
- neat
- nice
- noble
- opulent
- ornamented
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overdone
- polished
- rare
- recherché
- refined
- rich
- select
- simple
- stately
- stuffy
- stylish
- stylized
- sumptuous
- superior
- turgid
- well-bred
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- high falutin'
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
- adorned
- aureate
- baroque
- beautiful
- bedecked
- bright
- brilliant
- busy
- colored
- convoluted
- dazzling
- elaborate
- elegant
- embroidered
- fancy
- fine
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- florid
- flowery
- fussy
- gaudy
- gilded
- glamorous
- glitzy
- glossy
- high-wrought
- jeweled
- lavish
- luscious
- magnificent
- meretricious
- opulent
- ornamented
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overelaborate
- pretentious
- resplendent
- rich
- rococo
- showy
- sparkling
- splashy
- sumptuous
- superficial
- tawdry
- variegated
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