What is "overdone"

Usage examples of "overdone".

It gained Fritz Leiber a Hugo as the best science-fiction novel of 1958 and catapulted him right back into the limelight, but then he decided that satire was being overdone and he would try farce.

The escapism was overdone, but it was largely accomplished in concert with other children, with Bloch showing signs of leadership.

Even overdone, most of the breakfast was good, but he hated eating the prickle slices.

Mary Catherine thought it a bit overdone if it meant that she must make the trip alone with Con.

The cheese was overdone, almost black instead of a rich golden brown, the edges curled and dry.

He or his dentist had obviously overdone the bleach job, and his artificially tanned face only made his teeth more prominent.

It was a tactic Eurocops often employed against Yanks, that overdone, unfamiliar politesse, but she had faced it before, rather enjoyed the brittle game of it.

It looked trashily overdone under the harsh fluorescent lighting, but features tended to disappear beneath the stage lights in ordinary street makeup.

His colleagues were both wearing younger sleeves and they showed it less, but if you looked with Envoy eyes, the same tension was there in unconfident, overdone gestures, laughter too readily coughed out, the occasional tremor in a voice as it started up again in a dried throat.

And most of the French Railway officials agreed that the Argentinean anthem, like the sun-god flag, was a bit overdone.

Unfortunately the theme seemed faked, much like those overdone showhouses that lacked warmth to go with their manicured ambience.

Cheek anthologies, which bring together examples of prose so overdone that it becomes hilarious.

There was a sizeable clique of the overdone, comic opera uniforms in among them, and now he discovered that they smoked top-grade cigars.

I could tell by the quality of her alarm, which was actressy and overdone.

Yes, I heard the shearers singing `William Riley', out of tune, Saw 'em fighting round a shanty on a Sunday afternoon, But the bushman isn't always `trapping brumbies in the night', Nor is he for ever riding when `the morn is fresh and bright', And he isn't always singing in the humpies on the run -- And the camp-fire's `cheery blazes' are a trifle overdone.