overfamiliar
Britishadjective
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excessively friendly, informal, or intimate
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too well-known or easily recognized
an overfamiliar action movie
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In his evidence to the panel, the PE teacher acknowledged that his messages at times were "too friendly and overfamiliar but said he thought it was due to spending 16/17 hours a day with someone".
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Directed by Kelly Kitchens, “Snowed In” sidesteps the overwrought and overfamiliar qualities of so many holiday shows without tipping into full-on counterprogramming mode.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Other bits center around flaky co-workers, callous HR reps and overfamiliar recruiters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Because that conflict remains unresolved in the story, Jones often declines to resolve it in movement; numbers build from tension to frenzy without the overfamiliar Broadway-style climax.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
The orchestra had started to play again, a sensuous, creamy melody which was making the most of its brief reign as Broadway's leading song-hit, overfamiliar to her from a hundred repetitions.
From The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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