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Please don't think that we are fussy or overexacting, but we want to assure you that we hold your publication in the highest esteem and in the interest of truthfulness and accuracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

These seemed to me to be rather overexacting, but I resolved to try to live up to them if I should be admitted.

From Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements by Washington, Booker T.

These presents, however, humiliated him; he refused several; she insisted, and he ended by obeying, thinking her tyrannical and overexacting.

From Madame Bovary by Aveling, Eleanor Marx