A quantity that is more than what is appropriate

Usage examples of overmuch.

In due timeand not overmuch time, considering the snaillike creep of progress among the Cuban bureaucracy, not to mention the vagaries of sea-borne communication and the exceeding delicacy of treating with such sworn enemies as the European interloping, excommunicant trespassers on lands that Rome had long ago given solely to Spanish-Moorish keepinga guarda costa from Cuba, an armed sloop, had arrived in the basin below El Castillo de San Diego de Boca Osa with a message from the Governor of the Indies noting that neither the Norse, the French, the Irish, nor the Portuguese would any of them admit to knowledge of this dreadful fire-arming and training of the savage indios .

Pray weary my ears with rather less morology, if it troubles you not overmuch to do so.

Still, Faltus Wexenne judged that Porteous would not be missed overmuch.

She was just recovering from the most delicious thirty minutes of recent memory and not inclined to protest overmuch, especially when reassured that more pleasure was in store.

I did not care overmuch for its appearance, but such odd seating was clearly custom.

He did not care to wonder overmuch about the discreet timing of the communication, although he did realise that Fraxinus would almost certainly be gone from Khalorn by the time he returned from his own expedition in search of the elusive Checuti.

If we are overpowered, or even if we are delayed overmuch in reaching Nago, this will all come to a bad end.

Overmuch on a calm world, Palinurus, You must lie naked on some unknown shore.

In due timeand not overmuch time, considering the snaillike creep of progress among the Cuban bureaucracy, not to mention the vagaries of sea-borne communication and the exceeding delicacy of treating with such sworn enemies as the European interloping, excommunicant trespassers on lands that Rome had long ago given solely to Spanish-Moorish keepinga guarda costa from Cuba, an armed sloop, had arrived in the basin below El Castillo de San Diego de Boca Osa with a message from the Governor of the Indies noting that neither the Norse, the French, the Irish, nor the Portuguese would any of them admit to knowledge of this dreadful fire-arming and training of the savage indios .

As long as the bandsmen were playing then the British Battalions were not suffering overmuch from the French bombardment.

That way lay Blagden Pit, a place strong men chose not to muse on overmuch.

There will be three large shipstwo three-masted galleons and one four-mastedso there should not be overmuch crowding on the voyage.

O wretched Caitife, behold thou wert well-nigh perished againe, with the overmuch curiositie : well, goe thou, and do thy message to my Mother, and in the meane season, I will provide for all things accordingly : wherewithall he tooke his flight into the aire, and Psyches brought her present to Venus.

His councils held their share of shamans and priests, superstitious babblers and time-servers, but I had supposed that my father was sufficiently the pragmatist not to listen with overmuch attention to their cryptic advice.

Speculation was catching and, indulged in overmuch, decidedly led to the meg rims--which was possibly what was wrong with Madame la Comtesse de Mortaine, who was usually so practical and down to earth.