over-celebrated
English
Adjective
over-celebrated (comparative more over-celebrated, superlative most over-celebrated)
- Alternative form of overcelebrated
- 1876, James Creagh, “Over the Borders of Christendom and Eslamiah”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- A French naval officer, who had visited Montenegro, and from whom I sought information concerning that over-celebrated country, told me that everything which came under his personal observation, during a short residence in those highlands, was so entirely different to all his pre-conceived notions about them, as well as to all he ad ever heard and to all he had ever read, that he arefully avoided giving his opinion;
- 1975, Andrew Kingsley Weatherhead, Stephen Spender and the thirties, →ISBN, page 99:
- A substantial number of the poets of the decade, as of any other, knew no substitute for sense and offered vivid visible reports in their poems, of this and that object or event; and sometimes the question was raised, as it should be raised now, as to whether such observation was, in fact, used poetically, or whether it was a mere reflection of things and nothing more, like some of those little poems that appeared under the permissive dispensation of Amy Lowell's brand of imagism or the red wheelbarrow of William Carlos Williams, the most over-celebrated vehicle in literary history.
- 2012, Cuthbert Girdlestone, Mozart and His Piano Concertos, →ISBN, page 302:
- Next to the over-celebrated introduction, its most notable features are the threatening shadows that return several times in the first movement and in the trio of the minuet.
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Verb
over-celebrated
- simple past tense and past participle of over-celebrate