Synonyms for overnice
- abstruse
- pompous
- stilted
- academic
- arid
- didactic
- doctrinaire
- donnish
- dry
- dull
- egotistic
- erudite
- formal
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- learned
- nit-picking
- ostentatious
- particular
- pedagogic
- priggish
- punctilious
- scholastic
- schoolish
- sententious
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What was she trying to say with her dark hints and overnice scruples of a Puritan conscience?
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