too-much-seasoned

Updated: January 1, 2026

The good old art, in short, of writing an author up or down, is dying hard, but dying fast; and the public is beginning to follow the strange new fashion of discarding its timid, or truculent, or too-much-seasoned tasters, and judging for itself.

Various - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850.