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Word: overactivity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...seemed to want to say more, but the judge cut him off. The spectacle had ended: there was no point in letting Rajk overact his role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Burlesque in Budapest | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Mont presented Newscaster Walter Compton, who tended to overact. Compton was followed by a slow-burning Lucky Strike commercial (with the man who knows tobacco best looking fussed), and three short films (hunting dogs, wild fowl, a dance band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Day with Television | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...those are the surprises. The rest of the time these actors go corky on their lines, overact operatically or sit and talk. Above all they talk. A tremendous effort has been made in this adaptation to keep Author Hemingway's characters intact. But the adaptation is too literary, too theatrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: For Whom? | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...parts I overact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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