overcareful

Example Sentences

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Prose often receives the label “poetic” when it is musical or flowery, or when it seems overcareful.

From The New Yorker

Becoming overcareful of their diet, they reduce it below the normal limit for healthy activity.

From Project Gutenberg

Even then, this is an overcareful precaution rather than a necessity.

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She was not really angry with this overcareful gentleman; she would only have been grieved had he proved the man to serve her well.

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Michael of the crossing was so overcareful sometimes that it became trying.

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