overdone

How to use overdone in a sentence

The panic over the impact supply chain snafus are having on how many ad dollars are spent during this quarter is probably overdone.

It turns out those model solutions were more overdone than we thought.

Sent Alfaretta around to tell us that 'he'd overdone hisself and was obliged to take a vacation.'

Then, as he broke an egg that was shockingly overdone, he added spitefully: "Why did you boil your door-knobs?"

The truth is, I fear, that the market has been glutted and the business overdone.

Reticence and secretiveness are excellent things in their way; but this too may be overdone.

Humour might suggest that the expression of Patriotism is a trifle overdone.

Housekeeping may easily be overdone; home-making can never be overdone.

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.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985