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View synonyms for overlong

overlong

/ ˌəʊvəˈlɒŋ /

adjective

  1. 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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