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
She had an industrious, scheming, not overscrupulous brain and—her hopes and plans.
From The Fortune Hunter by David Graham Phillips
He, of course, for awhile tried his hand at persuading Mr. Harding that he was foolish, overscrupulous, self-willed, and weak-minded; but he tried in vain.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
But, my dear James, you really are overscrupulous.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
And so we started one summer morning, some twenty strong, all young, valiant, and not overscrupulous, armed, I need scarcely say, to the teeth, and mounted on the rough but fleet ponies of the country.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala
