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The phrase "overly familiar" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that is too informal or overly intimate in a given situation. Example: "His comments during the meeting were overly familiar and made everyone feel uncomfortable."
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It's an overly familiar, somewhat tired production.
An overly familiar America, accurately portrayed and perforce underimagined.
In fact, Mr. Obama can be overly familiar with them.
It isn't that Carrie has grown older or overly familiar.
Dennis Farber's "Game Boy" (1998) is overly familiar.
Mr. McFarland's aesthetic and techniques feel overly familiar and dated.
By the same token, the overly familiar can begin to pall.
It's why the troupe's online send-up of an overly familiar target (young Williamsburg types) works.
He was in some ways repellent — fawning and pretentious and overly familiar.
Less impressive are overworked, overly familiar mixed-medium collages and small paintings that need further development.
Mr. Amis's musings about this era tend to be overly familiar, or dubious and reductive.
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