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- adjective Too
good ; excessively good.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Good Design/Bad Design – SLG Art Director Scott Saavedra goes overgood and bad design choices and how they apply to comics and graphic novels.
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So back I came; and being in no overgood temper, vented my humors on the Portugals at the Azores, and had hard fights and small booty.
Westward Ho! 2007
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"Simon," said Aylward, "the light is not overgood and the place is cramped for sword-play, but if you will step out into the open I will teach you whether my master is a true soldier or not."
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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And behold, as they gazed they pressed their hands upon their eyes and looked and looked again, for the thing they saw seemed overgood for truth.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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"Simon," said Aylward, "the light is not overgood and the place is cramped for sword-play, but if you will step out into the open I will teach you whether my master is a true soldier or not."
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Legend has it that one ancient schoolmaster whom this good lady appointed was not overgood at spelling, and would allow a pupil to laboriously spell out a word and wait for him to explain.
The Parish Clerk 1892
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Probably the poor scholars 'security was not overgood.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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So back I came; and being in no overgood temper, vented my humors on the Portugals at the Azores, and had hard fights and small booty.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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Then, being very sharp-set, he fell to eating and drinking and himseeming the wine was not overgood, 'Lord confound her!' quoth he.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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Perhaps it don't make an overgood use of either. "
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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