overworked

adj 2

Collocations

ADJ.

under

VERB + OVERWORKED

am, got, seem, sound, think

OVERWORKED + NOUN

administrators, advisers, capitalism, himself, mary, professors

PREP.

during

ADV.

collectively, terribly, then

adj

Subjected to too much work.

Overworked and underpaid? Then quit your job and become a pro darts player.

Miss Suu Kyi’s overworked advisers[…]argue that people have to be realistic about what can be achieved in a short time and on a slender budget.

Having been overused such that it has lost its meaning; trite; banal.

overworked, unaffecting cliches

[Tim Garton Ash] is what you might call—overworked phrase—a public intellectual.

Overworked and underpaid? Then quit your job and become a pro darts player.

Wiktionary

Miss Suu Kyi’s overworked advisers[…]argue that people have to be realistic about what can be achieved in a short time and on a slender budget.

Wiktionary

The truth is that we are too overworked, under capitalism, to be deeply, collectively horny, too overworked even to realise that this is the case.

Wiktionary

You're overworked.

Tatoeba · #64333

You are overworked.

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He worked day and night and overworked himself.

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