Definitions
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- adverb In an
overheated manner; with undueheat .
Etymologies
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overheated + -ly
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Examples
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At any rate, what people overheatedly inflate about Iraq is unfortunately dead-on accurate about Somalia: The clans there hate each other.
"Our special operations people have been itching to clean them up." Ann Althouse 2009
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With the possible exception of the O.J. Simpson trial, it would be hard to think of a tabloid-ready celebrity scandal from the past 30 years that provokes a more purely, intensely, overheatedly emotional response than the Roman Polanski rape case of 1977.
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