overeager

/ ˌəʊvərˈiːɡə /

adjective

Unfortunately, dozens of pyramids are missing their peaks thanks to an overeager, gold-seeking explorer.

Even worse: Both overeager interviewers were from the same network.

Soldiers with purses filled with promises are not overeager to face skilled marksmen.

The outsiders, nervous and overeager, were making their bids for the purse, and making them too soon.

Comus, the trierarch, was overeager, or he would have remembered that which he seemed to have forgotten.

They were overeager to contact the fighters and one of them caught a crossfire as he roared in.

The chief rule is not to be overeager in getting at the desired secret.

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