conscientious
adjective
governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled.
overconscientious
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a word derived from
conscientious.
Example Sentences
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So many children raised by deadly serious and overconscientious parents have had humor programmed out.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Lensmand was no tyrant, but shallow, and not overconscientious.
From Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
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 John H. (John Hinchman) Stokes
Especially is this true of the overæsthetic, overconscientious types described in Chapter III.
From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson
Eleanor, thanks to the overconscientious digging about her roots, was acquiring a New England self-consciousness about her processes.
From Turn About Eleanor by F. Graham Cootes
