Words similar to overly

Example sentences for: overly

How can you use “overly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

You accuse me of being overly literal and insist that I'm not sufficiently sensitive to "surface, shape, color," and the formal qualities of art.
But before things get overly Aesopian (too late for that, you old fool!)
The overly respectful way the United States and its allies handled the tribal warlords in Africa sent an enormously harmful signal to the authentic democrats in Yugoslavia and Liberia.
When a decision-maker is more conscious of costs than of benefits, he tends to make decisions that are overly conservative.
In Reich's generally quite readable--though occasionally overly detailed--book, three strands of Rockefeller's character emerge, all of them reflecting the same degree of urgent vitality and, sometimes, an edge of self-destructiveness.