overcareful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- overcarefully adverb
- overcarefulness noun
Etymology
Origin of overcareful
Example Sentences
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Prose often receives the label “poetic” when it is musical or flowery, or when it seems overcareful.
From The New Yorker
At the same time he wondered if, being overcareful, he would never finish his statements at all.
From Literature
Becoming overcareful of their diet, they reduce it below the normal limit for healthy activity.
From Project Gutenberg
Even then, this is an overcareful precaution rather than a necessity.
From Project Gutenberg
She was not really angry with this overcareful gentleman; she would only have been grieved had he proved the man to serve her well.
From Project Gutenberg
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