In written English, the phrase "degree too" would typically be used to mean "to a greater degree," or "more than expected." For example, you might say "I didn't think it would be this bad, but it's degree too."
The sea is perhaps a degree too warm and not sufficiently bracing.
The citation language is the point where the Pulitzer committee may have been just a degree too defensive.
The MC and DSO were fictitious; the VC was a Victorious Cross he awarded to himself; and the law degree, too, was self-conferred.
First, we hired an ex-Army Ranger who had served in Iraq to chase down receivables — he's got a finance degree, too.
What we are saying is that we are guilty to a degree, too, but we are also offering an alternative way out".
She was declared ineligible for competition, as her right eye was deemed 0.1 of a degree too sighted to legally compete.
His manner was so correct that it sometimes seemed a few degrees too correct.
It's also the biggest and hottest — 190 degrees, too hot for me.
Not because it was corked, but because it was a couple of degrees too warm.
It is a child who is just a few degrees too cold, too sluggish, too slow to feed.
A few degrees too cold and the blade would chatter instead of cutting cleanly; too warm, and the blade wants to dip into the tissue.
