Sentence examples for overly smart from inspiring English sources
'overly smart' is not considered to be correct and usable in written English
To describe that someone is too intelligent, it would be better to use words such as 'intellectually precocious' or 'excessively clever'. For example, "Throughout his childhood, John was seen as an intellectually precocious student."
It is not overly smart, but it is stylish: from the comfortable banquettes, to the butterscotch wood trim, from the subtle yellow linen and the diminutive shot glasses to the repeated Harry's Bar monogram across everything (a stylised bar man shaking a cocktail), it all speaks of a particular kind of slick comfort.
Of course, Warren is the last person to dismiss the way in which boxing can divert not overly smart young men from a troubled path through life – he's known more than a few of them – but I sense an almost avuncular pride in Cleverly's academic record: it is not every other boxer, or indeed any other boxer, who holds a degree in mathematics from Cardiff University.
The design of the Programme as a whole and also of country-level programmes was not overly SMART (i.e. formulated with the use of specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound objectives and indicators).
Be active in class and show the knowledge that you do have; don't try to be overly smart though, it never pays to raise your hand when you don't know the answer.
"We intended her to be smart, just overly earnest".
In a smart, though overly biting, review in The Atlantic, B.R. Myers protests against Franzen's willingness to "create a world in which nothing important can happen".
For female mystery readers of a certain age, Sharon McCone was the genre's grown-up Nancy Drew, a smart, if overly stern, private investigator who built her own agency in San Francisco and mainly represented poor people in desperate circumstances.
Governments should provide smart, not overly burdensome regulation and a stable regulatory environment, as well as guarantee the rule of law and a level playing field.
The early iterations of Smart Reply were overly affectionate.
In letters to Kellogg's, General Mills and PepsiCo, the attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, said he was concerned that the program, called Smart Choices, was "overly simplistic, inaccurate and ultimately misleading".
It's just that I see them for what they are – overly complicated explanations to appear smart and inability to simplify a message.
