overconscientious
Example Sentences
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So many children raised by deadly serious and overconscientious parents have had humor programmed out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Especially is this true of the overæsthetic, overconscientious types described in Chapter III.
From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson
The Lensmand was no tyrant, but shallow, and not overconscientious.
From Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
The overconscientious syphilitic hardly realizes that the real horrors of the disease are usually the rewards of indifference rather than overanxiety.
From The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People by John H. (John Hinchman) Stokes
Or the overconscientious woman may expend her energies in chasing the last bit of dirt out of her house but be willing to poison her family with three delicatessen meals a day.
From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson
