overattentive
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Was it the doting and overattentive manner of the instructors?
From Los Angeles Times
I tried my best to not be overattentive, which I believe has been my downfall in the past.
From Slate
The opening game at the Luzhniki Stadium was a brilliantly staged piece of theatre, complete with an enjoyably opaque address from Vladimir Putin, iconic alpha-dog shots of Gianni Infantino lurking like an overattentive blini-waiter between Putin and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and a 5-0 defeat of a wretched Saudi Arabia.
From The Guardian
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 Literature
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
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