overact

Example Sentences

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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

While we weren’t making an actual game, and I’m no professional actor, I did have attempt to rein in my desire to overact, thinking I needed big bombastic movements for animators to play with.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 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

My friend was apt to overact his part.

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