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overdirected

  • a word derived from directed.
    directed
    adjective
    guided, regulated, or managed.

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Moss: Toby clearly hadn’t seen anything good by this point, because it was so, so overdirected.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020

But he has also overdirected, undermined, second-guessed and frustrated lawyers who were trying to help him.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2020

I disagree with you about Morton; she looks to me to be overdirected.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2012

But watching the overlong, overfeeling, overdirected made me glad to return from Cameron Crowe’s world to the real world, where things aren’t quite so simple.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2011