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protested too much

protested too much is the simple past and past participle of protest too much.

Meaning of protest too much

Verb

protest too much (third-person singular simple present protests too much, present participle protesting too much, simple past and past participle protested too much)

  1. (idiomatic) To insist so passionately about something that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying.

Questions about protested too much

What is protested too much the simple past and past participle of?
Protested too much is the simple past and past participle of protest too much.

Words near protested too much in the dictionary

  1. protestations
  2. protestator
  3. protestators
  4. protestatory
  5. protested
  6. protested too much
  7. protester
  8. protesters
  9. protesting
  10. protesting too much
  11. protestingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: protested too much (page history and authors); protest too much (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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