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

I struggle with depression at times, and as much as I try to be aware of how I am talking or acting, sometimes I get bitchy or overanxious about things.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2020

The Dodgers don’t want to get overanxious with their two-time All-Star and the 2016 NL Rookie of the Year who turns 25 in April.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2019

Not just because they are a necessary corrective to our overanxious, go-ballistic-over-high-fructose-corn-syrup age, but because of their graceful assertion that many stories are worth preserving.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2016

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