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overact
verb as in emote
Strong matches
Weak match
verb as in ham it up
verb as in overplay
verb as in overreach
Example Sentences
“I wanted to direct cartoon characters that gave me performances full of truth, full of emotion, full of sincerity, where they are not overacting,” Berger says.
It's hard to capture just how blatantly studied and overacted and false Britt’s entire spiel was.
Then came the guards yelling, recordings that Burn monitored for overacting.
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.
Still, Freeman is the only performer here who doesn’t overact.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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