overscrupulous

Example Sentences

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Most men would aver that he was overscrupulous, a man often rendered impotent by the severity of his own dedication.

From Time Magazine Archive

He, of course, for awhile tried his hand at persuading Mr. Harding that he was foolish, overscrupulous, self-willed, and weak-minded; but he tried in vain.

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony

You are a foolish and an overscrupulous man, Reuben Hallowell, for I say that such a reason makes all the more haste for her to be gone.

From The Windy Hill by Meigs, Cornelia

She had an industrious, scheming, not overscrupulous brain and—her hopes and plans.

From The Fortune Hunter by Phillips, David Graham

Well, you must forgive me if I have seemed overscrupulous.

From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie