overreaching

English

Verb

overreaching

1. present participle and gerund of overreach

Noun

overreaching (plural overreachings)

1. deception
   • 1786, James Archer, Sermons on Various Moral and Religious Subjects:

     You cannot mention trade or business, for instance, but they will relate the frauds and overreachings by which such an one has acquired the wealth which he now possesses.

   • 1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6:

     Any work of art/propaganda is surely permitted to lie. But Stone's overreachings in JFK are head-banging. How did he get this thing past the Script Dept.?