overparted

/ ˌəʊvəˈpɑːtɪd /

adjective

1. (of a performer) having been cast in a role that is beyond his or her abilities

Example Sentences

As Rigoletto, Kidon Choi seemed overparted in the first act due to marked intonation problems, but he focused as the evening went on to become effective and powerful when he railed at the Mantuan courtiers for abducting his daughter.

From Washington Post

How now, Numps! almost tired in your protectorship? overparted, overparted?”

From Project Gutenberg

Although the author of this Latin poem is something short of Homer, "a little overparted" by the comparison, still his work is designed on the scale of classical epic, and gives approximately the right extent of the story in classical form.

From Project Gutenberg

Whether he was overparted, or overworked, in the Pompadour atmosphere; or whether he succumbed to the "continual headache" of which he speaks in his letter to Hogarth, his health gradually declined.

From Project Gutenberg

OVERPARTED, given too difficult a part to play.

From Project Gutenberg