overscrupulous

Example Sentences

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Most men would aver that he was overscrupulous, a man often rendered impotent by the severity of his own dedication.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We will rout these fancies of an overscrupulous generosity, my dear Lady Busshe."

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

The timorous and overscrupulous women were the women who missed their footing, because, when they made a false step, they made it in fear and trembling, with the shadow of regret always dogging their heels.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe

I don't like to see you letting success and—and all the rest of it pass you by, when other men, not so overscrupulous, do succeed.

From Thankful's Inheritance by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

They found a shrewd and not overscrupulous leader in DeWitt Clinton and an adroit campaign manager in Martin Van Buren.

From Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty by Johnson, Allen