oversensitiveness
Example Sentences
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Perhaps it was through oversensitiveness that Brigit and I dwelt suspiciously upon Bedr's motives, and asked each other who it was he had expected at the House of the Crocodile.
From It Happened in Egypt by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
She knew, too, that she had herself to blame in part; her oversensitiveness, her quick temper, her want of deep insight had all had their share in making that evening such a blank failure.
From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall
And yet, after she had learned to make allowances for the oversensitiveness, Bea found Lila more lovable and winning week by week.
From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Julia Augusta Schwartz
Her mockery, her impatience, her picturesque asperity were a kind of game which she played with herself, to disguise, sometimes even from herself, the greatness and the oversensitiveness of her heart.
From International Short Stories American by Various
There may also be oversensitiveness to pain and of the skin.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
