overreaching
nounEtymology From overreach + -ing.
1
The act or process of overreach (e.g. reaching beyond or extending past acceptable limits).
2
Deception.
- You cannot mention trade or business, for instance, but they will relate the frauds and overreachings by which such an one has acquired the wealth which he now possesses.1786, James Archer, Sermons on Various Moral and Religious Subjects:
- Any work of art/propaganda is surely permitted to lie. But Stone's overreachings in JFK are head-banging. How did he get this thing past the Script Dept.?1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6: