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View definitions for overact

overact

verb as in emote

verb as in ham it up

verb as in overreach

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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.

From Salon

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.

From BBC

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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