overscrupulous

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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

He was quite irresponsible, and apparently not overscrupulous in either contracting debts or the use of the property of others.

From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Eddy, Arthur Jerome

Each of us had to show an alert and not overscrupulous self-reliance in order to obtain food for his men, provender for his horses, or transportation of any kind for any object.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore

You are a foolish and an overscrupulous man, Reuben Hallowell, for I say that such a reason makes all the more haste for her to be gone.

From The Windy Hill by Meigs, Cornelia

"We will rout these fancies of an overscrupulous generosity, my dear Lady Busshe."

From The Egoist by Meredith, George