adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an overwrought performance
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Cecile was emotionally overwrought .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the show, one was left trying to figure out what the overwrought applause was really all about.
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But our existence, while prosperous, is overwrought and banal.
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Coleridge in such cajoling and overwrought spirits was not to be thwarted, and Poole sensibly gave up all further resistance.
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Constantly overwrought , sometimes embarrassing in her alcohol and pharmaceutical-induced sorrows, Leo could have been a typical Almodovar comic heroine.
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He shook his head in disgust at his own overwrought imagination.
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Was this all just a matter of runaway credulity, mass hysteria, or overwrought salesmanship?
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Yoshimoto, however, is a legitimate storyteller, and avoids the overwrought sentiment that forces a reader to cry unwilling tears.