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overlong
/ ˌəʊvəˈlɒŋ /
adjective
- too or excessively long
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Too much of the show, however, was bogged down by sketches that were underwritten and overlong.
At 143 minutes and with a $225 million price tag, Man of Steel feels overlong and overdone.
It is hard to challenge these lies with a well-reasoned-but-overlong speech...
Her Oscar speech was a notoriously overlong, over-earnest, tear-filled, three-minute meltdown.
His antlers, this year, had been late to mature and overlong in the velvet.
Even the softest cushion grows hard, Master Pennington, when a man waits overlong.
But in wartime especially, too much patience becomes a dubious virtue, and if practiced for overlong may become a fault.
I have not learned to keep up a feast overlong in the camps of Carl, however, and I was for my bed.
They were already lingering overlong and Billy jumped up and packed their supply of food in sudden haste.
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