Meanings
adjectiveoverdrawn (comparative more overdrawn, superlative most overdrawn)
comparative more overdrawn · superlative most overdrawn
- Portrayed in an overstated or exaggerated manner.
True, Miliband thinks that it is an ‘absurdly overdrawn formulation of the Marxist purpose’ to speak of ‘the prospect of society of perfect unity, in which all human aspirations would be fulfilled and all values reconciled’.
1981 March 28, Leszek Kolakowski, “Miliband's Anti-Kolakowski”, in Political Studies, volume 29, number 1, Sage Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, page 124
verb
- participlepastpast participle of overdraw
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