Definitions

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  • adjective Scented excessively.
  • adjective Covered or concealed by a different odor.

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  • adjective Scented excessively.
  • adjective Covered or concealed by a different odour.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ scented

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Examples

  • Then I pissed him off, fighting back, and he was trying to strangle me with what looks like a cheap garment bag, I said, tossing the overscented bag aside, next to a discarded pair of torn, muddied jeans.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Then I pissed him off, fighting back, and he was trying to strangle me with what looks like a cheap garment bag, I said, tossing the overscented bag aside, next to a discarded pair of torn, muddied jeans.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • “The museum was the first public institution to be opened to nonwhites, and the Europeans disliked the idea of viewing the exhibits side by side with Africans, who, they claimed were ‘smelly,’ or Asians, who were ‘overscented.’”

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • “The museum was the first public institution to be opened to nonwhites, and the Europeans disliked the idea of viewing the exhibits side by side with Africans, who, they claimed were ‘smelly,’ or Asians, who were ‘overscented.’”

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Or else stars by themselves, "bests," "uniques:" a female-impersonator, a green-eyed boy who wagged his hips like the very devil and took off the girls; Poland, a Warsaw Jewess, a redheaded, overscented beauty, who did the "Parisienne," and ever and ever so many others.

    The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

  • 135 “At first. … ‘overscented’”: By the Evidence, pp.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • 135 “At first. … ‘overscented’”: By the Evidence, pp.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

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