surfeit

May’s surfeit was wider than the C$2.68 billion expected by economists, and it follows April’s upwardly revised C$3.41 billion surplus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

There's not exactly a surfeit of available and convincing candidates and Clarke is a proven operator who has become a serial qualifier for major tournaments.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

As a businesswoman, a single mother and a highly sensitive human, Moore made it through life thanks to a surfeit of loving kindness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

Colleges are graduating a surfeit of young people who lack hard or even soft skills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

“I didn’t mean that,” said Harry, whose brain felt sluggish with exhaustion and from the surfeit of food and wine.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear.

From Time Magazine Archive

We love not loaded boards and goblets crown'd, But free from surfeits our repose is sound.

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir

The burgesses of a Scottish borough are rendered, by their limited means of luxury, inaccessible to gout, surfeits, and all the comfortable chronic diseases which are attendant on wealth and indolence.

From The Surgeon's Daughter by Scott, Walter, Sir

Sooner or later love, which is loose, surfeits and sours.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood

Their rest is not disturbed by the fear of thieves and robbers, nor is it interrupted by surfeits of intemperance.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Swift, Jonathan

Theatergoers, surfeited with entertainment options at home, have been less inclined to commit to season subscriptions, placing more pressure on programming to come up with sure-fire hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

You’d think those of us who are keeping tabs might be surfeited by now, but a true theater lover can never have too much Sondheim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

At this point, I'm so surfeited on natural spectacles, it's faintly disappointing not to see a troupe of all these things executing Busby Berkeley maneuvers for my personal delectation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2013

Recently, to whet a possibly surfeited U. S. appetite, Disney announced he would withdraw the English version from U. S. circulation.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am sure it is surfeited with babies and is now coming after adults.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

What the Valentine's cards forget is that the lovesick duke who speaks the words wants to overeat so that "surfeiting/ The appetite may sicken, and so die."

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013

They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cod increases its species most prodigiously, surfeiting itself upon hake, until the world is again menaced.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

Doctor Todd tried to effect a compromise by accepting two hundred thousand dollars outright, but the philanthropist did not believe in making beggars of institutions by surfeiting them with charity.

From David Malcolm by Lloyd, Nelson

So Christ commands, Luke 21, 34: Take heed lest your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting; also Matt.

From The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 by Melanchthon, Philipp