overly

[O·ver*ly]

To a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

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Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough.

Adverb
to an excessive degree; "too big"


a.
Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough.

a.
Excessive; too much.

adv.
In an overly manner.


Overly

O"ver*ly, a. 1. Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough. [Archaic] Bp. Hall. 2. Excessive; too much. [R.] Coleridge.

Overly

O"ver*ly, adv. In an overly manner. [Archaic]

Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough.

In an overly manner.

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Usage Examples

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

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Other Usage Examples

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

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