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Definition of Overplaying
1. overplay [v] - See also: overplay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overplaying
Literary usage of Overplaying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Nat Geoe M 31:362-5 An '17 overplaying the news. New Repub 10:340-2 Ap 21 '17
Pacifism in the Middle West. PM Buck, jr Nation 114:595-7 My 17 '17 Parliament ..."
2. Folks from Dixie by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1898)
"The younger men thought that he was rather overplaying his role of school trustee.
He was entirely too conscientious as to his duty to Miss ..."
3. The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). by Kenneth M. Setton (1984)
"... den had been overplaying their hand. Politics and religion went together in
the sixteenth century. While the Lutheran preachers were regarded by the ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1880)
"Th» consequence in the case of the pianoforte sonatas is constant overplaying to
force the music to a larger scale, so that, in the expression of Lenz ..."
5. The Contemporary Drama of England by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1917)
"They came partly because the dramatists were overplaying the lead. And in large
measure they came because the new movements had taught the audience and ..."
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