overanxious

Example Sentences

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I felt like we were overanxious parents that go to the doctor and then you get dismissed.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2022

When they arrived, their overanxious bus driver got so close to the building that the heat forced them to retreat some distance.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2021

I’m not overanxious about the very idea of “using” a child to make a statement.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2018

He added, “Tricking the overanxious player is a deception as old as football itself.”

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2013

The scene was so entirely a realization of her worst fears that she sensed that her overanxious imagination had projected the figures onto the packed spines of books.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan