overwise
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of overwise
Example Sentences
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Bella hath altogether too many of them, and her mother is not an overwise woman!
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Sir 10:26 Be not overwise in doing thy business; and boast not thyself in the time of thy distress.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
Thomas Baker, the historian of the College, suggests that "the scholars were overwise and the brethren over good."
From St. John's College, Cambridge by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
The kings said: "Not overwise is this thine asking, whereas thou wouldst have us give her to one who lacketh dignity; wherefore we gainsay thee this utterly."
From The Story Of Frithiof The Bold 1875 by William Morris
Ye overwise philosophers," he exclaimed, in his "Tertius Interveniens;" "ye censure this daughter of astronomy beyond her deserts!
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
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