overact

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

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 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

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

Mr. Kline does not overact; it’s his character who does, and it’s important to recognize the distinction.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017

They can perversely ignore it, though they will cripple themselves in the process, will overact their part and come to grief.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter

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

He is also someone who overthinks, overacts and overshares.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2015

Keaton rises to the formidable challenge of underacting as an actor who overacts.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2014

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

I cannot, and do not trust him—he somewhat overacts his part.

From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

Advertisement Advertisement Mr. Bahrani went a bit astray with “At Any Price,” an overplotted, overacted movie with Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron as a father and son trying to save their family farm.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2015

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