8 examples of overwise in sentences

It is being overwise, to treat with contempt what mankind hold in respect: and philosophy teaches us not to extinguish our feelings, but to correct and refine them.

You are so jealous and suspicious, as persons overwise or guilty use to be."

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

Fear it not, their overwise heads will think it but a trick.

I've a mind he'd be overwise and mysterious for you in the end.

And indeed, if she ever contemplated surrender, if she were more than once on the verge of giving way to the tears of broken spirit, the vague, uninterested eyes of her father and the overwise smiles of Hervey were whips which sent her back into the battle.

At my leaving the Coffee-house, I could not forbear reflecting with my self upon that gross Tribe of Fools who may be termed the Overwise, and upon the Difficulty of writing any thing in this censorious Age, which a weak Head may not construe into private Satyr and personal Reflection.

If they answer, that it takes from the height of his character to do it; I would enquire of my overwise censors, who told them I intended him a perfect character, or, indeed, what necessity was there he should be so, the variety of images being one great beauty of a play?

8 examples of  overwise  in sentences