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Definition of "outstayed" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of outstay. (verb)

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Use "outstayed" in a sentence
  • "After having felt the film outstayed its welcome, this sequence instantly re-engaged me, but then I was equally put out by the film ending with a quote of Raging Bull."
  • "Matt Busby and Brian Clough outstayed their time at Manchester United and Nottingham Forest, with damaging results, although the depth of the gratitude felt by their supporters meant that criticism was largely muted."
  • "In the welcome spirit in which people around the world are taking it upon themselves to question and even shake off entrenched and fossilised regimes that have long outstayed their welcome, I wonder if their courageous example could not have something to teach us?"
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