over-coloured

Doyle later recanted his "rather sensational and over-coloured picture," but his novel endured as one of the most famous with Mormon subject matter.

Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

We are therefore entitled to assume that they neither over-coloured nor deliberately toned down the prevalent conditions.

England under the Tudors

Either the scene has greatly altered since Madame Pfeiffer's visit, or her imagination has considerably over-coloured its principal features.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

There is every reason to believe, however, that though Burke over-coloured his picture of the guilt of the arraigned governor-general, yet his motives were honest and pure.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Those who insist on charm, on winningness in style, on subtle harmonies and fine exquisiteness of suggestion, are disappointed in Burke: they even find him stiff and over-coloured.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Baldassare was made to feel that he had over-coloured his case.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

We think it right to put our readers upon their guard against these over-coloured descriptions.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

I gave him an outline of the affair which had caused the Belgian headquarters staff to shift from Furnes, and though it was, I fancy, slightly over-coloured, he was very much obliged ...

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

Even as he had described her physically she overpowered the senses; she was coarse-fibred, over-coloured, rank.

Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

Handsome, well-preserved, a little over-coloured, a little square of figure, with his look of worldly importance, of assured material success, he stood to-day, as Cyrus had stood a quarter of a century ago, as an imposing example of that

Virginia Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909