overwrought
IPA: oʊvɝrˈɔt
adjective
- Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
- Elaborate; baroque; overdone.
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Examples of "overwrought" in Sentences
- The result is overwrought prose.
- The statements seem a bit overwrought.
- I guess I'm a bit overwrought by the thing.
- I'm I guess a bit overwrought by the thing.
- In light of this, a topic ban seems overwrought.
- The picture and the overwrought prose will have to go.
- The overwrought tone here is inexplicable and unhelpful.
- However, I do think that the fair use concerns are overwrought.
- The ballads, on the other hand, are overwrought and declarative.
- I think some of the indignation displayed by others was overwrought.
- Pleased to see that I was at "overwrought" before J. Hoberman got there.
- Not sure how that became "overwrought" in your mind, but maybe we've misunderstood each other.
- This is the kind of overwrought, underreported business story I expect to see in Fortune magazine, not my local business journal.
- Opera Tattler finds the characters caricatures and the production "overwrought," with the music unfocussed and too much in the background.
- Best of all, she's got a playful sensibility that keeps the covers from getting bogged down in overwrought gravitas, no matter the subject.
- That last label is the funniest of the three because a story about a notorious miser visited by four ghosts who scare the hell out of him to make him change his life is by definition overwrought.
- Tademy's bold, controlled account of these horrific events never shies away from the gruesome facts, or becomes overwrought, which is a remarkable feat considering her emotional attachment to the story and its characters.
- I would be so excited about my latest acquisition that I would start to read in the car a habit that always triggered my motion sickness, but I didn't care, and then, the second I got home, sign my name in overwrought cursive on the inside cover.
- And insofar as we might say that the poetry of emotion is synonymous with its expression in language, then it becomes clear that writing from a place of the 'overwrought', the 'cheap', the 'excessive', the 'insufficient' and the 'incapable' is actually also writing from a place of abjection women writers are consigned to in a kind of categorical quarantine.
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