Overearnestly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In an overearnest manner.

    "At the other extreme, last year's Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain by Reinhold Kramer focused (rather overearnestly) on Richler's writing itself."

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"At the other extreme, last year's Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain by Reinhold Kramer focused (rather overearnestly) on Richler's writing itself."

Etymology

From overearnest + -ly.

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