overcareful

Prose often receives the label “poetic” when it is musical or flowery, or when it seems overcareful.

At the same time he wondered if, being overcareful, he would never finish his statements at all.

Becoming overcareful of their diet, they reduce it below the normal limit for healthy activity.

Even then, this is an overcareful precaution rather than a necessity.

She was not really angry with this overcareful gentleman; she would only have been grieved had he proved the man to serve her well.