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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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Tide seemed overkind to Y. & R.: J.W.T. itself admits to $17,000,000 of new business during the past two years.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He is not such a boy as all that comes to; and, if you don't mean it, you are overkind to him."

From Rossmoyne by Unknown

Her friends had not been overkind to her lately, and she was deeply touched by this proof of attachment from her old playmate and companion.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

Officious, of-fish′us, adj. too forward in offering services: overkind: intermeddling.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Hayes, for the lark did it once, but found it against his principles to practise on said tub again, and thus got into disgrace with our overkind sergeant.

From The Eureka Stockade by Carboni, Raffaello




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