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 Translation for 'overly' from English to Spanish
SYNO excessively | overly | to a fault | ...
excesivamente {adv}overly
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Translation for 'overly' from English to Spanish

overly
excesivamente {adv}
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Usage Examples English
  • Analyzing overly-clichéd storylines and pointing out their flaws.
  • He also does not seem overly fond of Matsun.
  • The fact that the Bush administration took a 'Leninist' (short-term, forceful) view of the End of History instead of Fukuyama's 'Marxist' (long-term, gradual) teleology - a metaphor used by Ken Jowitt- made them overly optimistic.
  • As of the 21st century, certain traditional characteristics are declining due to many younger Eastern New Englanders avoiding them, particularly non-rhoticity and the aforementioned vowel distinctions, which they tend to perceive as old-fashioned, overly rural-sounding, or even overly urban-sounding with regard to Boston.
  • Critic Ogden Dwight called it overly technical and dramatically lacking.

  • ... Hopkins writing before 2018) argue that in the 21st century, along with becoming overly partisan, America politics has become overly focused on national issues and "nationalized", so that even local offices, formerly dealing with local issues now often mention the presidential election.
  • "Animatedness" is Ngai's term for the politically charged affect of non-mainstream groups who are characterized as overly emotional, overly agitated, and usually overly sexed while simultaneously imagined as pliant, or lacking in individual agency.
  • Similarly, there is equivalency between an overly stingy assessment and an overly generous assessment.
  • "Clematis paniculata" prefers soils that are damp but not overly soaking and if the roots become dried out then the plant will not survive.
  • Sweet-talking, overly confident Chad slithers his way into the shop.

  • In the context of Latin American politics, Kurt Weyland has argued that Rational Choice Institutionalism is overly focused on politics as it is conducted in legislative institutions and elections, as well as the formal rules and formal institutions of politics.
  • Others have remarked that "script analysis...is overly psychoanalytic in attitude and overly reductionist".
  • An English lord is overly fond of married women.
  • When elites are overly dominant, despotic states emerge.
  • Wang Mingsheng compared Wang Shuwen to an overly aggressive daughter-in-law who tried to correct her mother-in-law in important matters as soon as she was married — in other words, being attentive but being overly eager on his agenda, and believed that Wang Shuwen had committed no crimes.

  • Pre-programmed victory poses by fictional characters in video games have been the subject of controversy, particularly where the victory pose has been regarded as overly sexualized.
  • In metaphysics, balance is a point between two opposite forces that is desirable over purely one state or the other, such as a balance between the metaphysical and chaos — law by itself being overly controlling, chaos being overly unmanageable, balance being the point that minimizes the negatives of both.
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