overparticular
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I’m not just being overparticular here about a slightly irritating stylistic quirk.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013
For this reason, I salute the contestants of University Challenge and Only Connect for their indefatigability and obstinate dedication to the overparticular.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
We were slouches, I know, with rumpled hair and, I fear not overparticular as to our linen during the greater part of the week.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
When it was a matter of those foreign gentlemen, German barons, Italian counts, Austrian princes, and so on, I was extremely particular, perhaps overparticular.
From Quaint Courtships by William Dean Howells
Dekker was a most voluminous writer, and not always overparticular whence he got, or how he used, the material for his tracts and plays.
From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by John Stephen Farmer
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