surfeit

There's not exactly a surfeit of available and convincing candidates and Clarke is a proven operator who has become a serial qualifier for major tournaments.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

As a businesswoman, a single mother and a highly sensitive human, Moore made it through life thanks to a surfeit of loving kindness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

Once markets adjusted to the shock, U.S. gas inventories flipped into a surfeit that depressed prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Colleges are graduating a surfeit of young people who lack hard or even soft skills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

Chan Chan suffered a palace surfeit because dead rulers were regarded as divine figures.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The company built pellet plants across the southern U.S., moving into parts of the pinery where pulp and paper mills had closed and left behind surfeits of sawdust, wood chips and cheap pulpwood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man never surfeits of too much honesty.

From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston

That is, surfeits are dangerous; but the proverb which follows shows, as usual, that there is no rule without an exception.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief; 'T is but surmis'd whiles thou art standing by, As one that surfeits thinking on a want.

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

Theatergoers, surfeited with entertainment options at home, have been less inclined to commit to season subscriptions, placing more pressure on programming to come up with sure-fire hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

You’d think those of us who are keeping tabs might be surfeited by now, but a true theater lover can never have too much Sondheim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

At this point, I'm so surfeited on natural spectacles, it's faintly disappointing not to see a troupe of all these things executing Busby Berkeley maneuvers for my personal delectation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2013

As for the shortage of news coverage, they claim that "the public is surfeited with broadcast news."

From Time Magazine Archive

I am sure it is surfeited with babies and is now coming after adults.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

What the Valentine's cards forget is that the lovesick duke who speaks the words wants to overeat so that "surfeiting/ The appetite may sicken, and so die."

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013

They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health.

From Time Magazine Archive

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

And yet there are not wanting malecontents amongst us, who, surfeiting themselves on too much happiness, would persuade the people that they might be happier by a change.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott

It is of surfeiting that the Son of God warns us to beware.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr