Example Sentences

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Adapter Yaffe needs half an evening of won't-you-walk-into-my-parlor? before he is ready with his parlor game; and is perhaps overready to have his American convict himself, to create another death of a salesman.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not desirable that men should become overready speakers.

From Public Speaking by Winter, Irvah Lester

He was most unclerically gallant, was tactless, was overready to take offense, and, his wrath once fully roused, was unrelenting.

From Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington)

Still, she deluded herself with the belief that this slight indiscretion of her overready tongue had escaped the magistrate's notice.

From The Count's Millions by Gaboriau, Émile