It is not fitting for a teacher to overly favor certain pupils over others.
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Overly
Synonyms for "overly" (32 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Adverb(1 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (16)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- прекомерно adv (to an excessive degree)
- твърде adv (to an excessive degree)
Catalan
1 entries- excessivament adv (to an excessive degree)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 太 adv (to an excessive degree)
- 極度地 /极度地 adv (to an excessive degree)
- 過分 /过分 adv (to an excessive degree)
- 過度地 /过度地 adv (to an excessive degree)
Finnish
2 entries- liian adv (to an excessive degree)
- yli adv (to an excessive degree)
French
1 entries- trop adv (to an excessive degree)
Galician
1 entries- excesivamente adv (to an excessive degree)
Georgian
3 entries- გადაჭარბებულად adv (to an excessive degree)
- ზედმეტად adv (to an excessive degree)
- მეტისმეტად adv (to an excessive degree)
German
2 entries- allzu adv (to an excessive degree)
- übermäßig adv (to an excessive degree)
Irish
1 entries- ró adv (to an excessive degree)
Japanese
4 entries- あまりに adv (to an excessive degree)
- とっても adv (to an excessive degree)
- とても adv (to an excessive degree)
- 過度に adv (to an excessive degree)
Polish
2 entries- nadmiernie adv (to an excessive degree)
- zbytnio adv (to an excessive degree)
Portuguese
3 entries- demais adv (to an excessive degree)
- exageradamente adv (to an excessive degree)
- excessivamente adv (to an excessive degree)
Russian
4 entries- избы́точно adv (to an excessive degree)
- изли́шне adv (to an excessive degree)
- сли́шком adv (to an excessive degree)
- чрезме́рно adv (to an excessive degree)
Spanish
2 entries- demasiadamente adv (to an excessive degree)
- excesivamente adv (to an excessive degree)
Swedish
2 entries- alltför adv (to an excessive degree)
- över adv (to an excessive degree)
Sample sentences
28 total sentences available.
That's an overly optimistic view.
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I'm not overly interested in the event.
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I find just the memory of his overly polite patronizing manner really offensive.
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