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Teachers found him an overearnest but not always overapt pupil, except in math.

From Time Magazine Archive

This phrase Yan had read some where and his overapt memory had seized on it.

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson

We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I believe him to be faithful, though overapt to mischief.

From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)