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

That may cause audiences not to really believe in the performances, but in film, because this acting happens in front of the camera, you don’t have to overact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

She remembers turning up at castings as recently as five years ago, recording self-tapes, running lines with her mother, who could be counted on to overact.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2019

My friend was apt to overact his part.

From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

Soo overacts and injects emotion despite acknowledging, in a more recent video, that “most of the time” the witness did “not convey a lot of emotions.”

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

We did a self tape for “The Beach Bum” with Matthew McConaughey, and my dad overacts, doing an impression of Matthew McConaughey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2020

The film suggests Moose is on the autism spectrum, but Travolta overacts at every opportunity, magnifying every emotion and gesture, such as Moose's penchant to rock back and forth.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2019

He is also someone who overthinks, overacts and overshares.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2015

Inwardly she added: "He overacts the part dreadfully."

From Chip, of the Flying U by Charles M. Russell

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

“Maybe I overacted to dreaming — maybe I was dreaming about something else. She didn’t think it was funny.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2019

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

He overacted the part, but it was convincing enough for the scriv accompanying me.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

They can reveal if the people caught in action are hiding from the camera or posing for it, and if they are speaking naturally or being loud and overacting.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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