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So many children raised by deadly serious and overconscientious parents have had humor programmed out.

From Time Magazine Archive

The overconscientious syphilitic hardly realizes that the real horrors of the disease are usually the rewards of indifference rather than overanxiety.

From The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People by Stokes, John H. (John Hinchman)

Eleanor, thanks to the overconscientious digging about her roots, was acquiring a New England self-consciousness about her processes.

From Turn About Eleanor by Cootes, F. Graham

Or the overconscientious woman may expend her energies in chasing the last bit of dirt out of her house but be willing to poison her family with three delicatessen meals a day.

From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham

For the most part he has attained a desirable stage of ethical development, is overconscientious and more than usually correct.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund