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It was an overcomplicated, overclever question that left Warren feeling comfortable defaulting to what was effectively a stump speech.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2015

There's maybe a workman now an' then, as isn't overclever at's work, takes to preachin' an' that, like Seth Bede.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George