overweight
adjective
weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc..
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Jones' piling up of detail, which at times has overweighted his novels, proves quite an asset in this journal.
From Time Magazine Archive
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