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Too much of the show, however, was bogged down by sketches that were underwritten and overlong.

At 143 minutes and with a $225 million price tag, Man of Steel feels overlong and overdone.

It is hard to challenge these lies with a well-reasoned-but-overlong speech...

Her Oscar speech was a notoriously overlong, over-earnest, tear-filled, three-minute meltdown.

His antlers, this year, had been late to mature and overlong in the velvet.

Even the softest cushion grows hard, Master Pennington, when a man waits overlong.

But in wartime especially, too much patience becomes a dubious virtue, and if practiced for overlong may become a fault.

I have not learned to keep up a feast overlong in the camps of Carl, however, and I was for my bed.

They were already lingering overlong and Billy jumped up and packed their supply of food in sudden haste.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overlong, such as: continued, deep, distant, dragging, drawn-out, and elongate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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