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- adjective Too
bright
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I used the phrase, "coruscating emanations of this forgotten world's overbright sun".
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Just as I was pulling on my jeans, the door flew open and Lucy burst in, face flushed, eyes overbright.
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Just as I was pulling on my jeans, the door flew open and Lucy burst in, face flushed, eyes overbright.
yarb commented on the word overbright
...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