Overly and Very

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Overly adverb - Beyond a normal or acceptable limit.

Usage example: there's no need to be overly careful about the rough draft, since we'll polish it afterwards

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Very and overly are semantically related in too topic. In some cases you can use "Very" instead an adverb "Overly".

Very adverb - To a great degree.

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Overly and very are semantically related in extraordinarily topic. You can use "Overly" instead an adverb "Very".

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