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  • adjective Too bright

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over- +‎ bright

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Examples

  • When Evie caught sight of my pallor, the overbright, feverish glint to my eyes, she sent me home, saying she would close the kitchen a little early that afternoon.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • When Evie caught sight of my pallor, the overbright, feverish glint to my eyes, she sent me home, saying she would close the kitchen a little early that afternoon.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • When Evie caught sight of my pallor, the overbright, feverish glint to my eyes, she sent me home, saying she would close the kitchen a little early that afternoon.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • When Evie caught sight of my pallor, the overbright, feverish glint to my eyes, she sent me home, saying she would close the kitchen a little early that afternoon.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • When Evie caught sight of my pallor, the overbright, feverish glint to my eyes, she sent me home, saying she would close the kitchen a little early that afternoon.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Instead of looking overbright, like an HDTV test pattern, her black hair, blue suit, and aquamarine ring were starting to appear washed out, almost fuzzy, more like one of those fifties movies you rent that was done by some cheaper process than Technicolor.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Instead of looking overbright, like an HDTV test pattern, her black hair, blue suit, and aquamarine ring were starting to appear washed out, almost fuzzy, more like one of those fifties movies you rent that was done by some cheaper process than Technicolor.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • I used the phrase, "coruscating emanations of this forgotten world's overbright sun".

    MIND MELD: Worldbuilding 2008

  • Just as I was pulling on my jeans, the door flew open and Lucy burst in, face flushed, eyes overbright.

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

  • Just as I was pulling on my jeans, the door flew open and Lucy burst in, face flushed, eyes overbright.

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

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  • ...and we found in the eerie

    overbright morning that rhubarb leaves

    had crusted the window.

    - Peter Reading, Fall, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974

    June 22, 2008