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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
oversing .
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Examples
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I went in to a shoe store the other day but they were playing some kind of oversung, toxic R&B song or what passes for R&B in the modern world and turned right around and walked out.
Planning a Chicago shopping trip? The sales tax is now 10.25%! Ann Althouse 2008
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While I think she's good, that song is not meant to be "oversung".
dulligirl Diary Entry dulligirl 2006
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He covers for the second half, but that first half was ghastly and oversung.
YesButNoButYes: Haterade's Idol Anal-ysis (Round of 2) - 5/20/08 2008
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Jennifer Hudson does an equally horrific job with that crappy song, warble for warble, oversung note for oversung note.
"Even Judy Garland's most iconic on-screen ballad performances seem small compared with..." Ann Althouse 2006
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Or that it's the nature of the show itself to drain singers of real emotion and to cause them to rely on oversung long notes and ugly-sounding early low notes leading to thrilling late high notes.
"American Idol" -- the final three. Ann Althouse 2005
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In the test there were thirty-three faults to be guarded against; and whenever the marker had chalked up seven against the candidate, he was declared to have oversung himself and lost the coveted honor.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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Some of it is the language barrier but the singing style feels so oversung, so exaggerated and so humorless that I just want it to stop.
News 2012
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Some of it is the language barrier but the singing style feels so oversung, so exaggerated and so humorless that I just want it to stop.
News 2012
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Sniped The Washington Post of the song, which featured Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, "The updated take was horribly oversung … save for the 21st-century rap verses added toward the end of the track."
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And that means we'll finally get some (reasonably) good singing, teary-eyed drama and tons of oversung, underwhelming pop tunes.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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