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scenery-chewing

scenery-chewing adjective: that chews the scenery; excessively flamboyant or overacting.

Adjective

scenery-chewing (comparative more scenery-chewing, superlative most scenery-chewing)

  1. That chews the scenery; excessively flamboyant or overacting
    • When Mitzi's Uncle Boris (a scenery-chewing Judd Hirsch) visits, he is too on the nose when he advises, "Art will tear your heart out."2022 November 19, Caryn James, “Spielberg's The Fabelmans review: An emotional crowd-pleaser”, in BBC

Forms of scenery-chewing

comparativemore scenery-chewing
superlativemost scenery-chewing

Questions about scenery-chewing

What does scenery-chewing mean?
Scenery-chewing means that chews the scenery; excessively flamboyant or overacting.
What part of speech is scenery-chewing?
Scenery-chewing is an adjective.

Words near scenery-chewing in the dictionary

  1. sceneries
  2. sceners
  3. scenery
  4. scenery-chewer
  5. scenery-chewers
  6. scenery-chewing
  7. sceneryless
  8. scenes
  9. scenescape
  10. scenescapes
  11. scenesetter

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