Definitions

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  • adjective Too loud; noisy.

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  • adjective Too loud.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ loud

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Examples

  • A plane with a low passenger-mile/fuel ratio could be reconceived as a jetzar, and a country with an overloud political voice might be termed a nationtzar.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • A plane with a low passenger-mile/fuel ratio could be reconceived as a jetzar, and a country with an overloud political voice might be termed a nationtzar.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The sound seemed overloud in the silence upstairs.

    My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011

  • The sound seemed overloud in the silence upstairs.

    My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011

  • The sound seemed overloud in the silence upstairs.

    My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011

  • He passed along the drive in front of the bungalows where the only sign of life was a blue glint on drawn drapes and overloud voices in heightened discussion.

    Happy Landings David Ackley 2011

  • It used to be that the young folk had all the fun – taking too many drugs, wilfully damaging their hearing with overloud music, being joyously unaware of the significance of words such as "utility bills" and "inflation" – but who really thinks that now?

    Reality TV's the only way to move up in this world | Carole Cadwalladr 2011

  • This does not make Chelsea fans bad people, despite suspicions that there are even more overpaid and overloud geezer types on their terraces than there are on the pitch: it just means that family ties are stronger than the urge to be judgmental.

    Marlon King's return would be a moral stretch too far 2010

  • They were everywhere she looked, in every conceivable incarnation, their voices and laughter overloud with exaggerated self-confidence.

    Winter Bloom Tara Heavey 2010

  • Jacob Rausch chose that moment to saunter past, surrounded by allies who shunned her with overloud laughter.

    The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

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