overtrue
adjEtymology From over- + true.
1
In the negative Very or excessively true.
- "De Mortuis nil nisis bonum," is an old, trite, though not overtrue proverb, arising from that truly religious sentiment: To do unto others as we wish that others might do unto us.1877, The North American Journal of Homeopathy, volume 26, page 277:
- […] all the much-paraded but not overtrue neutrality of England notwithstanding […]1879, George Anthony Denison, Notes of My Life, 1805-1878 (issue 108, page 274)