overly broad
Frequency: 5.59.3 per million words
Indicates an excessive or undesirable degree of width.
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Examples (10)
- The new law was criticized for being overly broad and potentially infringing on civil liberties.
- Your research topic is overly broad; you need to narrow it down to something more manageable.
- The claim that all politicians are corrupt is an overly broad generalization.
- The dictionary's definition of 'art' was considered overly broad by many critics.
- Placing both comedies and dramas into such an overly broad category doesn't make sense.
- His request for 'all relevant documents' was rejected as being overly broad and burdensome.
- We had to refine the project's objectives because the initial scope was overly broad.
- The judge warned against applying an overly broad interpretation of the statute.
- The consultant's recommendations were so overly broad that they were not actionable.
- If your search query is overly broad, you will get thousands of irrelevant results.