overnice

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overnice
Adjective
  • One of Jeanne Lanvin’s most famous innovations was the robe de style, which could be seen as an ultra feminine response to the garçonne look embraced by flappers.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Daniel and Gabriela Curti, a married couple visiting from Buenos Aires, Argentina, said R-Evolution captured the feminine strength and liberation Bay Area artist Marco Cochrane had sought to portray.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Through it all, Deneuve’s Bernadette presents a model of soft-spoken, womanly perseverance.
    Armond White, National Review, 23 Apr. 2025
  • My favorite was the dystopian one featured in the tour’s promotional, majestically capturing a Black, womanly otherworldliness concomitant with her performance.
    Julian Randall, Essence, 9 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Lavin said Lukas loved to fish, so there will be a fishing dock in his honor, Genevieve was a girly girl and the boss of her brothers, Ben was artsy, and Archer was athletic.
    Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Simone Rocha has been making walkable city-friendly, concert-friendly girly footwear fashionable for a minute now, and the world is finally ready.
    Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As if the florals weren’t girlish enough, Kidman—styled by Jason Bolden—cinched her waist with a black satin bow belt.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024
  • With a big smile and girlish shrug of her shoulders, the blade finds flesh and digs in.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Overnice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overnice. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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