Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Kind to excess; kind beyond deserts; unnecessarily kind.
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- adjective
Excessively kind ; kind beyonddeserts ;unnecessarily kind.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Flightplan, I was told, was lame, and, as usual, the person who delivered this judgement was breathtakingly overkind.
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Fortune was not overkind, but his 'virtues and pious intentions may be read ... shining too gloriously to be dusked by misfortune.'
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Difficulties that check others fall away from him; he is smiled upon for his kindred's sake before he makes friends for his own; the world is overkind to his virtues and blind to his faults; he enters manhood indeed as "of one our conquerors"; and it will cost him some trouble to throw away his advantages.
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Billy felt that Fate was overkind to him, and he lost no time in heeding her call.
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Even that great man whose memory we love and revere, Charles Dickens, was not overkind to us, and saw our faults rather than our virtues.
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Even that great man whose memory we love and revere, Charles Dickens, was not overkind to us, and saw our faults rather than our virtues.
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Even that great man whose memory we love and revere, Charles Dickens, was not overkind to us, and saw our faults rather than our virtues.
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Perhaps in her desire to secure my services for the cause she may have shown herself overkind; or perhaps I was still young enough to set down to my own charms a success due to quite different causes.
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“Master Simonides is overkind,” had ventured the athlete; “but I am sure his praise is only polite compliment.”
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Perhaps in her desire to secure my services for the cause she may have shown herself overkind; or perhaps I was still young enough to set down to my own charms a success due to quite different causes.
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