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
The timorous and overscrupulous women were the women who missed their footing, because, when they made a false step, they made it in fear and trembling, with the shadow of regret always dogging their heels.
From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens
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 Cornelia Meigs
I don't like to see you letting success and—and all the rest of it pass you by, when other men, not so overscrupulous, do succeed.
From Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Tush—man!" said Sir Hugh; "this is to be overscrupulous.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
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