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

He was never an impetuous man; always a thoughtful and methodical one, and always overparticular in respecting the courtesies of life.

From Tides of Barnegat by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

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

Let the reader who deems me overparticular remember this caution of Martial:— "Quem recitas, meus est, O Fidentine, libellus; Sed male cum recitas, incipit esse tuus."

From The Biglow Papers by Hughes, Thomas