overclouded

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What should have been a time to regroup, refocus, and rethink has been overclouded by just one more act in the circus known as the 2012 season.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012

Clifford’s handsome dark face became overclouded with boredom.

From Bird of Paradise by Leverson, Ada

If the genius of Mallarm� was obscured by the flatterers that surrounded him, how much more was Wilde's talent overclouded by the would-be-witty, shoddy-elegant, and cheaply-poetical society hangers-on, who covered him with incense.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

The Duke of York was not without personal good qualities, which scarcely deserved the name of private virtues, and were overclouded by his private vices.

From The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick by Bradlaugh, Charles

So, perhaps, Shakespeare said to himself in those years when, as we imagine, melancholy and embitterment often overclouded his sky, though they did not obscure his faith in goodness and much less his intellectual vision.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil