Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excessively learned; too carefully taught.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overstudy .
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Examples
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I find it hard to imagine a more oversampled, overstudied subgroup white kids in cities. “self-satisfied hipster gibberish.”
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So let us set aside this single overstudied issue . . .
Lean Left » Blog Archive » In Which I am Unfashionably Unsympathetic to the Kurds 2007
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What to do, if you're a mature academic who honestly loves what he she does, but realizes he she has overstudied the wriggling bug in the jar it is that he she studies...
How to Write a CoHE "First Person" Essay: A Handy Multiple-Choice Guide 2006
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His skill in versification, sometimes striking enough, was evidently artificial; he overstudied metrical expression and overrated its value so as sometimes to write, what were little better than nonsense-verses, for the rhythm.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 Various
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"We think -- in fact, Helen overstudied," she said.
The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark
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Some individuals believe the Negro has been greatly overstudied while others contend that with all of the studies and surveys the general conditions under which the race lives have not shown any real improvement.
The Negro Population of North Carolina: Social and Economic John Rodman 1944
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His health had always been frail, and he overstudied in college, with the result that in the middle of his junior year he broke down altogether and was ill for a long time.
The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos 1924
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His dress, his mannerisms, his bearing, were all those of the man who has overstudied his part.
The Call of the Cumberlands Charles Neville Buck 1904
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When, some months later, he brought out his first slim volume, in which the remodelled college essay on Rendle figured among a dozen somewhat overstudied "appreciations," he offered a copy to Mrs. Memorall; who surprised him, the next time they met, with the announcement that she had sent the book to Mrs. Anerton.
The Muse's Tragedy 1899
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Rendle figured among a dozen somewhat overstudied "appreciations," he offered a copy to Mrs. Memorall; who surprised him, the next time they met, with the announcement that she had sent the book to
The Muse's Tragedy 1899
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