overparticular

Example Sentences

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I’m not just being overparticular here about a slightly irritating stylistic quirk.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2013

For this reason, I salute the contestants of University Challenge and Only Connect for their indefatigability and obstinate dedication to the overparticular.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

As a rule she was not overparticular, but just then she was in that state of nerves when little things fretted her.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)

When it was a matter of those foreign gentlemen, German barons, Italian counts, Austrian princes, and so on, I was extremely particular, perhaps overparticular.

From Quaint Courtships by Howells, William Dean

Dekker was a most voluminous writer, and not always overparticular whence he got, or how he used, the material for his tracts and plays.

From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen