Definition of Overeasy

1. too easy [adj] - See also: easy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overeasy

overdubs
overdue
overdust
overdusts
overdye
overdyed
overdyeing
overdyer
overdyers
overdyes
overeager
overeagerly
overeagerness
overeagernesses
overearnest
overeasy (current term)
overeat
overeaten
overeater
overeaters
overeating
overeats
overed
overedit
overedited
overediting
overedits
overeducate
overeducated
overeducates

Literary usage of Overeasy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Defoe: How to Know Him by William Peterfield Trent (1916)
"... not a man presumptuously secure, but had escaped a long while, and men, as I said above, especially in the city,1* began to be overeasy upon that score. ..."

2. Daniel Defoe: How to Know Him by William Peterfield Trent (1916)
"... not a man presumptuously secure, but had escaped a long while, and men, as I said above, especially in the city,18 began to be overeasy upon that score. ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an Analysis of the by William Blackstone (1836)
"... and the administration thereof; for that more offenders escape by the overeasy ear given to exceptions in indictments, than by their own innocence (c). ..."

4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1900)
"... more offenders escape by the overeasy ear given to exceptions in indictments than by their own innocence, and many times gross murders" "escape by these ..."

5. Handbook of Criminal Procedure by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1918)
"... and the administration thereof; that more offenders escaped because of the overeasy ear given to exceptions to indictments than by the manifestation of ..."

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