overattentive
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Was it the doting and overattentive manner of the instructors?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2023
I tried my best to not be overattentive, which I believe has been my downfall in the past.
From Slate • Sep. 6, 2020
His shoulders droop as he tells me about what it was like to be back in Connecticut with his overattentive mom.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 9, 2016
He has supplemented the story of the Swansea son of an overattentive mother and dissapointed schoolteacher father with some fresh evidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Physicists as a rule are not overattentive to the pronouncements of Swiss patent office clerks, and so, despite the abundance of useful tidings, Einstein’s papers attracted little notice.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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