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Overly   Listen
adverb
overly  adv.  
1.
In an overly manner. (Archaic)
2.
Excessively.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Overly" Quotes from Famous Books



... eager to help, however, and when she told him that she suspected her husband of being overly friendly with an insect named Zada L'Etoile, and that she wanted them shadowed, he betrayed ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... sleigh drove up to the door, and Neil Campbell came in. Donald was not overly glad to see him, for he suspected where he was going. Neil Campbell, who was Highland Scotch and lived down at Berwick, was courting Nancy Sherman, too; and, what was far worse, Nancy's father ...
— The Story Girl • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... room rather scornfully, at the same time throwing back his coat and displaying a red neckerchief and a huge garnet pin. "Guess you're not overly rich," he said. ...
— The Autobiography of a Quack And The Case Of George Dedlow • S. Weir Mitchell
... might be living, and as I mounted the steps to Walt's room on the second story my resentment increased. Not a line of beauty or distinction or grace rewarded my glance. It was all of the same unesthetic barrenness, and not overly clean at that. ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... than polite protest, but was startled. I had not expected the encounter to reach the Great House so soon. Shainsa's Great House had changed hands four times since I had last been in Shainsa. I wasn't overly anxious to appear there. ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... he could do to watch his prisoner. A gang climbed into the wagon and administered a terrible thrashing to the black en route. It took a half hour to reach the police station, for the mule that was drawing the wagon was not overly fast. When the station was reached a mob of nearly 200 howling white youths was awaiting it. The noise they made was something terrible. Meyers was howling for mercy before he reached the ground. The mob dragged him from the wagon, the officer with him. Then began a torrent ...
— Mob Rule in New Orleans • Ida B. Wells-Barnett
... in the building, for her mother had gone with the overly confident Barker to pick blackberries, and the Chinese cook was temporarily absent. The girl was making a bed, when the door swung open, and she turned with a bright greeting, thinking that her mother ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony


Words linked to "Overly" :   to a fault, excessively


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