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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overaffect .
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Instead of finding some mote of credibility in his agitprop monologues, Davidson compounds the problem with an overaffected nasal simper, fey gestures and a performance that amounts to an insulting parody of the gay male.
Chicago Reader 2010
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