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  • adjective Exccessively rich.

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  • adjective Excessively rich.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ rich

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Examples

  • Now doth it provoke the lower classes, all benevolence and petty giving; and the overrich may be on their guard!

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • Henry George is out of date, but his Progress and Poverty Doubleday, New York, 1926 retains an emotional appeal and is written in a rich—often overrich—journalistic style.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • Henry George is out of date, but his Progress and Poverty Doubleday, New York, 1926 retains an emotional appeal and is written in a rich—often overrich—journalistic style.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • Also unlike Chavez, he'd once used drugs, until his sister had OD'd on a needle of overrich heroin.

    Clear and Present Danger Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1989

  • It is muddy, too, and overrich in dissolved fibrous and bitter matters.

    The Suffrage Cook Book L. O. Kleber

  • And like a wax figure indeed, immobile, rigid, the bride was standing before them, arrayed at last in the shimmering white of the sweeping satin, overrich of lace and orange flowers, and shrouded in the clouding waves of her veil.

    The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

  • Unthinking courage in the matter of victuals is rather a relief from the strained and anxious hygienic watchfulness of the overcivilized and the overrich.

    Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886

  • Now doth it provoke the lower classes, all benevolence and petty giving; and the overrich may be on their guard!

    Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

  • Now doth it provoke the lower classes, all benevolence and petty giving; and the overrich may be on their guard!

    Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • You are a bunch of overpaid and overrich spoiled clowns who bring this country down.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

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