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Sentence count:183+4Posted:2017-07-02Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: cleverlycoverletoverlandoverlapoverlayoverlookoverleapoverloadMeaning: ['əʊvə(r)lɪ]  adv. to an excessive degree. 
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31. I think you're being overly critical.
32. Not all overly sensitive children have attentional problems.
33. Others said that that scenario might be overly optimistic.
34. Shugart was sued by Lerach the first time for supposedly expressing overly optimistic views to shareholders.
35. An independent review body has described the lessons as overly generous.
36. Our two trucks, looking overly complex and vulnerable compared to our Neolithic surroundings, wait alongside the dusty track.
37. Needham believes that the overly low assessment was caused by two main factors.
38. I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
39. Publication of the Myners report may lead to concern that pension funds will begin to take on overly risky investments.
40. We aimed to produce models with a clear logical structure, without depending on overly idealised assumptions.
41. But this must be a cautious and overly optimistic conclusion.
42. Your tone generally falls somewhere in this range: Pompous: Overly formal, often contains passivity and jargon.
43. It is difficult for firms to identify those who are good managers, and those who are not overly risk averse.
44. And the other parent, feeling deprived and jealous, often becomes overly punitiVe with the child.
45. Phases 2 and 3 seem overly ambitious given the present circumstances.
46. As she expected, they were not overly concerned about her problem.
47. As a structural engineer, he draws conclusions about overly high chimneys, mortar quality, and roofing tiles.
48. The primary danger of war was the irrational arms race and overly hostile relations between the major military powers.
49. Care should be taken not to accept an overly conservative brief merely to pamper a difficult client.
50. His critics say it may have been overly simplistic to use only two experimental methods.
51. The messages Tim received from his overly concerned parents were that he was not okay.
52. It was the overly loquacious Lord Macaulay who called him the Smith of Smiths.
53. Then, in a breath, she said limp-wristed, overly groomed fellows on small salaries worked in corporate finance.
54. He slept at regular intervals, was not colicky, and was not overly active.
55. However; the defiant child also tends to have a little better postural control than the overly sensitive child.
56. Unlike many of the writers of the period, Brooke-Rose is not overly preoccupied by morality in her early fiction.
57. The Rational / Bureaucratic model can produce overly restrictive formal systems that stifle initiative and reduce responsiveness to change.
58. Ideally continuity systems will be positive aids that enhance organizations' flexibility without overly constraining individuals.
59. Impose strict limits on dissemination of passenger travel data and the use of overly intrusive searches.
60. Select chores that the child is not overly averse to doing.
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