overqualified
adjective
over·qual·i·fied
ˌō-vər-ˈkwä-lə-ˌfīd 
: having more education, training, or experience than a job calls for
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They didn't hire her because she was overqualified for the job.
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The plot, too, is threadbare to the point of incoherence, with a slew of overqualified performers — including Imelda Staunton and Lesley Manville — left to fill in the gaps as fairies, man-crows, and anthropomorphized mushroom caps.
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Staff Author, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Then again, the Celtics were also playing on the second night of a back-to-back—a fact that rendered Al Horford, theoretically Porzingis’s overqualified backup, unavailable—and the Clippers were coming off a five-game win streak.
—Hunter Felt, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Davis led the team in blocks (1.5) and was second in rebounds (6.7) and field-goal percentage (62.5 percent), excelling as an overqualified screener, roller, rim-runner, second-chance merchant and switchable rim-protector.
—Jovan Buha, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
Still, this overqualified cast continues to win me over by chewing scenery like every single one of ‘em went to the Al-Pacino-in-Heat school of acting (off-screen cocaine habit included).
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Staff Author, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Then again, the Celtics were also playing on the second night of a back-to-back—a fact that rendered Al Horford, theoretically Porzingis’s overqualified backup, unavailable—and the Clippers were coming off a five-game win streak.
—Hunter Felt, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Davis led the team in blocks (1.5) and was second in rebounds (6.7) and field-goal percentage (62.5 percent), excelling as an overqualified screener, roller, rim-runner, second-chance merchant and switchable rim-protector.
—Jovan Buha, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
Still, this overqualified cast continues to win me over by chewing scenery like every single one of ‘em went to the Al-Pacino-in-Heat school of acting (off-screen cocaine habit included).
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for overqualified
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“Overqualified.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overqualified. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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