overcareful

Example Sentences

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“While some may prefer to be overcareful, we may prefer to be under-careful,” Ms. Münster said.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2020

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

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2019

But those who looked elsewhere suspected that many companies were being overcareful.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the beginning of the film, as Fonda lumbers about in gusts of frail menace, he angles toward playing a New England Lear with overcareful pungency.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time he wondered if, being overcareful, he would never finish his statements at all.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen