overlong

ADJECTIVE

long

Synonyms

WEAK

continued deep distant dragging drawn-out elongate elongated enduring enlarged expanded extensive far-off far-reaching faraway gangling great high lanky lasting lengthened lengthy lingering lofty long-drawn-out longish outstretched prolonged protracted rangy remote running spread-out spun out stretch stretched stretching stringy sustained tall towering

Example Sentences

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The only thing “Saturday Night Live” loves more than an overlong current events cold open is running a successful joke into the ground.

From Salon

Most of this happens in just the first act—overlong at 90 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal

“F1: The Movie” may be a thinly veiled, overblown, overlong vanity project, but it’s designed to waterboard viewers with Pitt’s panache until they relent, hoping that we, too, become so exhausted by its end that we can’t help but give in.

From Salon

I wish the same could be said about his overlong dream-logic interludes, which tantalize as peeks into Frankie’s psyche but eventually feel like style filler.

From Los Angeles Times

The Hindustan Times newspaper called it a film grappling with "an identity crisis, an overlong run time and a confused mess of a script".

From BBC

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