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What does overacting mean?

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  1. present participle of overact
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These are done with all kinds of rubatos, rallentandos, underlining, and overacting.
On one hand, the film is a terrible mess of plot holes, ridiculous premises, and overacting.
It had its faults in the pretentious overacting and such, but it was as great as Hollywood movies can get.
He was often, and probably justly, accused of underacting in the movies, but never of overacting.
It's great fun watching him tear into this role, knowingly and calculatingly overacting.
The two boys also put in solid performances, tearing into their roles with the necessary gusto without ever overacting.

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