overly solicitous

Example Sentences

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The narrator of “Big Sur” is Meg, who discovers her awkward, overly solicitous boyfriend Roger is a blot.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022

For being overly solicitous of the pretty but mean neighbor lady, for going on and on and never asking about our big meeting.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

At the OMB, where the nation’s policy objectives often brutally intersect with its fiscal realities, the Decadal Survey offered Parriott and his colleagues a foolproof way of dismissing overly solicitous astronomers.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2021

Remain friendly, but don’t go out of your way to be overly solicitous, since this will make it clear that you need them to make you feel better about yourself again.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2019

But with fearful children, you have to balance validating emotions with not being overly solicitous.

From Time • Aug. 9, 2011