Overwrought

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"Overwrought" in a Sentence (4 examples)

At the funeral, the widow was overwrought with grief.

I hate how documentaries dramatise moments in history with overwrought music and B-list actors.

It is clearly overwrought, and I do not think a lot of people are buying the message, but that does not prevent the president from trying.

Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.

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