overact

Still, Freeman is the only performer here who doesn’t overact.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023

“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

No need to project, let alone overact, here; I heard him as clearly as if he were sitting next to me.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2022

And so that is why in the theater, the actors tend to be very exaggerated or overact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

He loved to exaggerate, to act and overact the momentary part, to exercise his lungs and muscles, and to speak and laugh with his whole body.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

She overacts, sings her way through conversations, puts on affected accents, responds to normal requests in a histrionic manner, and generally treats our home like a little Broadway theatre.

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2021

In support, Toni Collette overacts, deliberately and effectively, while David Thewlis makes each verision of the character he plays interesting.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2020

De Niro never overacts like Pacino, but his downward slide has been no less excruciating to witness.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2015

Regarding the cast, Puig says that Ray Liotta "overacts" in his role as Ryan's stern preacher father and Ashley Judd "dully plays" his mother, while the narration is "heavy-handed" and "clunky."

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2014

He overacts his parts, and even Shakespeare will tell you how foolish a proceeding that is.

From My Strangest Case by Boothby, Guy

The night I saw it, not all of that singing was precisely on key, and the child nearest me overacted wretchedly.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2022

He overacted, but these are old songs whose sentiments can use some help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

Or perhaps you will come to feel that you’ve overacted and yet still want to involve the school to prevent further issues.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2019

But the transformation is so sudden — and, frankly, badly overacted by Guthrie, who seems to have forgotten that he’s playing a single human being, not two — that the tragedy rings hollow.

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2016

For a second I thought she was going to run into my arms as if we were reunited lovers in some overacted Aturan tragedy.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

"I replied, 'I can't cry'. I told her 'I'm not capable of overacting'."

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Her overacting meets Ms. Gyllenhaal’s over-filmmaking like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Then came the guards yelling, recordings that Burn monitored for overacting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

My sister told me I was overacting and should just move my office into my bedroom or closet.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2023

Even Leeds’ Thespians on Demand, the famed English acting troupe known far and wide for their loud voices and shameless overacting, could not hold a candle to this family.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood