overemphatic
- a word derived from overemphasis.
Example Sentences
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Once you throw it open to the many, many actors who cut their teeth in the theater world and gave standout screen performances this year, it can all seem rather overemphatic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2020
But it turns out this piece could use a bit more dazzle; Aimard’s earnest reading ended up feeling overemphatic and heavy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019
He has a slight speech impediment and an overemphatic manner of inflection that are rendered all the more conspicuous by the dentist’s-drill whine of his voice.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017
One twist of a melodic inflection, one overemphatic orchestral stab, and those carefully constructed verbal nuances have been obliterated.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2013
This might have seemed overemphatic to an unprejudiced outsider.
From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
