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Definition of the day : « overblown »

  • adj excessive, too much
Example sentences :
  • Or ‘Friar Tuck’ so overblown He tipped the scale at fifteen stone.
  • Extract from : « A Humorous History of England » by C. Harrison
  • One of these is notoriously tumidity—an overblown exaggeration of phrase.
  • Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2) » by John Addington Symonds
  • Surely she could never become gross and overblown, the damask fading to an underwater bleach, dugs swollen to down pillows!
  • Extract from : « Wilderness of Spring » by Edgar Pangborn
  • Yet Laura was neither gross nor unclean—indeed, pretty in her overblown way, and certainly friendly.
  • Extract from : « Wilderness of Spring » by Edgar Pangborn
  • He looked like an overblown schoolboy, and though I felt so sorry for him, I could hardly help laughing.
  • Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Cornelia blushed; but some of the loose petals of the overblown rose in her bosom became detached, and floated earthward.
  • Extract from : « Bressant » by Julian Hawthorne
  • The overblown high Baroque style in ornament, swag, and cartouche was also drawn upon as a source for decorative cuts.
  • Extract from : « John Baptist Jackson » by Jacob Kainen
  • One of them is growing like a creeper around the branches of this overblown gorse-bush.
  • Extract from : « The Evolutionist at Large » by Grant Allen
  • The storm which threatened the former was overblown, and he was in season to avert that by which the latter was threatened.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Francis Marion » by William Gilmore Simms
  • When he became dazzled with a vulgar, opulent, overblown person, Jacquaine would not view it as a temporary fascination.
  • Extract from : « Love's Usuries » by Louis Creswicke