overdramatic

Example Sentences

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This is slightly overdramatic, but as I watch another person make it through the open doors and into the elevator, I feel like a bit of a hero.

From The Verge • Aug. 31, 2022

As a songwriter you sometimes get those hole-in-ones, and I'm just so grateful because it's not overdramatic for me to say that it changed my life.

From BBC • May 12, 2022

It feels overdramatic to say that a lie threads through most of my dating life, but no other phrase so succinctly captures the truth.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

Instances with this level of introspection are limited in “Groupers,” but when they do come around Mayer-Klepchick and Duckett arise as the superior players among their overdramatic peers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2019

Though it once helped convince millions of the truth of spirit communication, her Victorian-era writing is so overdramatic, that today, most of the book reads as proof against spirit existence.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock