Similar words: cleverly, coverlet, overland, overlap, overlay, overlook, overleap, overload. Meaning: ['əʊvə(r)lɪ] adv. to an excessive degree.
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61. Atlanta is on a massive ego trip, mixed with a congenital inferiority complex that makes Atlantans overly eager to impress others.
62. Standard medical practice may be ignored, with excessive numbers of drugs or overly expensive formulations being prescribed.
63. Given that the quarterback will be 41 at the time, that prediction seems overly optimistic.
64. This is the kind of overly generalized, commercial forestry approach that drives Hub Vogelmann and his fellow ecologists nearly to distraction.
65. Parents repeatedly describe their work-inhibited children as overly sensitive and threatened by disapproval.
66. It is not that she is overly concerned with how Red perceives her.
67. The black beard, for example, and the overly bushy eyebrows.
68. My goal at the moment is three times a week, perhaps overly ambitious.
69. There was a lot of contemporary art on the walls, not exactly her taste but not overly crude and jarring.
70. Colson believes the media has been overly critical since the Stanford game.
71. Perhaps this doesn't sound overly problematic; surely, intuitively, all people should be treated equally whatever their age.
72. Effectiveness and mistake avoidance are treated as synonymous, which is often overly simplistic.
73. This is especially important for work-inhibited children, who are typically overly dependent upon the support of others to complete school assignments.
74. The early cases were overly concerned to protect the gentry's right to communicate gossip about disloyal or dishonest servants.
75. But even the most optimistic experts are not overly optimistic.
76. As it turns out, some of these dreams were overly optimistic.
77. At first sight, much of this conceptual art seemed either flip or overly theoretical.
78. Rather than helping their children become more in-dependent, parents become overly involved and promote further dependence.
79. The review drew criticism as overly secretive, especially as it became clear that Rumsfeld was contemplating major change.
80. Overly tired drivers can be nearly as dangerous as drunk drivers.
81. The book lags in the middle, the pacing slowed by an overly long delay in getting to the murder scene.
82. The thought that some hapless youth might have their future career threatened by a drugs record for one joint seems overly Draconian.
83. It sounds like you are overly concerned about being branded as a corporate crier if you go to management.
84. It is impossibly complex, outrageously expensive, overly intrusive, economically destructive and manifestly unfair.
85. This account of science is indeed overly optimistic but at the same time limited.
86. Confiscatory taxes and overly complex tax regulations make it exceedingly difficult for small business to perform this basic function.
87. And the media bought the overly optimistic pronouncements without questions.
88. But others say parents have become overly eager when it comes to teaching tots about technology.
89. This allows less dangerous toxins like lactic acid to accumulate,(http://sentencedict.com/overly.html) creating overly acidic conditions in your muscles.
90. Overuse fear as a motivator by being overly demanding.
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