overparticular

Example Sentences

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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 O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

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 Howells, William Dean

But the red fox was not overparticular just then.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir