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adjectiveovertrue (comparative more overtrue, superlative most overtrue)
comparative more overtrue · superlative most overtrue
- Very or excessively true.
[…] all the much-paraded but not overtrue neutrality of England notwithstanding […]
1879, George Anthony Denison, Notes of My Life, 1805-1878 (issue 108, page 274)1 more example
"De Mortuis nil nisis bonum," is an old, trite, though not overtrue proverb, arising from that truly religious sentiment: To do unto others as we wish that others might do unto us.
1877, The North American Journal of Homeopathy, volume 26, page 277
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