strict
adjective
characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles.
overstrict
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a word derived from
strict.
Example Sentences
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Inside the big doorway yonder is written up 'Silencio' and 'Vir prudens tacebit,' but the monks are not overstrict, and, like the Archduke at Miramar, they offer free hospitality to all wayfarers.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
But maybe this is an overstrict rule for the majority of us who are much too fond of embellishments and display—the rouge and powder of high art.
From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable
In military affairs he was said to be overstrict in discipline; this from those who had served under him in former wars.
From A Virginia Scout by D. C. Hutchison
These ladies were bound to be overstrict in something or other, being just a little lax in certain things where other ladies are strict.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade
He was overstrict for the times even in England, where his subjects almost learned, before he died, to regret the anarchy of his father's reign.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
