all too

adv

all too

adv
1

Very, extremely; thoroughly but lamentably; excessively.

  • Teenage pregnancies are all too common in the UK.
  • Sexism is all too familiar in this department.
4 more examples
  • They were all too ready to sell their stories to the press.
  • It was over all too soon.
  • a robot will not be subject to all-too-human fits of anger, sadism or cruelty.2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:
  • And you call me up again just to break me like a promise So casually cruel in the name of being honest I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here 'Cause I remember it all, all, all too well2011, Taylor Swift, “All Too Well”:

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