overnice

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overnice
Adjective
  • Throughout Fort Worth, streets with feminine monikers are rumored to be named for builders’ girlfriends and paramours.
    Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2025
  • It’s set in an empty warehouse loft, with light shooting through propeller fans (very Adrian Lyne), and with Miley, in her primal assertion of feminine dominion, joined by Naomi Campbell, the two of them obliterating the need for anyone else.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 June 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
  • McQuarrie’s feats lack the comic timing, composition, and emotionalism that cartoonist-director Brad Bird brought to the thrilling Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Ethan/Tom spider-walking the Burj Khalifa skyscraper and outrunning a dust storm, Paula Patton’s womanly catfight with Léa Seydoux).
    Armond White, National Review, 23 May 2025
  • Through it all, Deneuve’s Bernadette presents a model of soft-spoken, womanly perseverance.
    Armond White, National Review, 23 Apr. 2025
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
  • There’s still a girlish quality to Mishi’s look thanks to the short shorts, which also accentuate the legs that will determine her greatness.
    Oliver Sava, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
  • 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
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“Overnice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overnice. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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