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 Francis Hopkinson Smith
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
She knew that the others thought she was fussy and overparticular, and that helped to make her thoroughly uncomfortable.
From The Little Colonel's House Party by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
