overingenious

Needless to say, that's not what Williams had in mind, and on paper it may sound like an overingenious directorial conceit, but in performance it heightens to a breathtaking degree the immediacy of Tom's recollections.

A Masterpiece Made Manifest Terry Teachout 2010

Needless to say, that's not what Williams had in mind, and on paper it may sound like an overingenious directorial conceit, but in performance it heightens to a breathtaking degree the immediacy of Tom's recollections.

A Masterpiece Made Manifest Terry Teachout 2010

Needless to say, that's not what Williams had in mind, and on paper it may sound like an overingenious directorial conceit, but in performance it heightens to a breathtaking degree the immediacy of Tom's recollections.

A Masterpiece Made Manifest Terry Teachout 2010

This may seem overingenious, but it made the more sense to me because, as it happens, she had also taught me how to spell.

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

This may seem overingenious, but it made the more sense to me because, as it happens, she had also taught me how to spell.

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

In its extreme form, the overingenious poet or crossword puzzler is afflicted by a hysterical muteness, having arrived at the mad (and obvious) intuition that almost any utterance is susceptible of a faulty interpretation.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3 1986

The overingenious readings of Empson and occasionally of Leavis stem partly from a semantic overloading of the words in a text -- the attribution of a 20th-century meaning, for instance, to a word in a

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3 1986