overconscientious

For the most part he has attained a desirable stage of ethical development, is overconscientious and more than usually correct.

If it came to a push I suppose I could do everything for myself, even cook my breakfast; but I should hate it and it wouldn’t give me any pleasure.—That one,” she said, and pointed to a most peculiar frock that looked like the effort of that overconscientious chameleon when it endeavored to imitate the tartan of the Gordon Highlanders.

So many children raised by deadly serious and overconscientious parents have had humor programmed out.

In last week's Southern Medical Journal, Dr. Louis Arthur Buie of the Mayo Clinic said that after draft officials got over being choosy and started sending along pilonidal cyst cases, "overconscientious" Army & Navy surgeons began operating on all cysts, even uninfected "dimples."

Eleanor, thanks to the overconscientious digging about her roots, was acquiring a New England self-consciousness about her processes.