overact

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

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 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

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

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 Walter Lippmann

The film suggests Moose is on the autism spectrum, but Travolta overacts at every opportunity, magnifying every emotion and gesture, such as Moose's penchant to rock back and forth.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2019

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

Inwardly she added: "He overacts the part dreadfully."

From Chip, of the Flying U by Charles M. Russell

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

Every line is drenched in cliché, every scene is laboriously overacted, and even the strikingly good looks of the actors can't do much to salvage this alpine train wreck.

From The Verge ● Aug. 20, 2014

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

Peppery notes from Talia Shire and Jon Voight intermingle with athletic overacting by Shia LaBeouf and Dustin Hoffman.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024

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