overemotional
Example Sentences
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Because, aside from when you’re the teen in question, it almost always looks ridiculous when a kid is just an overemotional, theatrical mess of a broken heart.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
Instead of being an untouchable fashion queen like Campbell, she’s the goofy, overemotional friend.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2020
We had communication issues: He did not communicate emotions well, and I have borderline personality disorder, which, while well managed, still leaves me overemotional at times, especially when it comes to feeling potentially abandoned.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2020
Look up old videos of Leonard Bernstein conducting Mahler, and you’ll see how an approach like this can go wrong: Bernstein looks mannered, overemotional, performatively in search of transcendence.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2020
He was as stiff as a stalk of celosia, already up to his ears in overemotional shenanigans.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
