overexquisite
adjEtymology From over- + exquisite.
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Excessively exquisite; too exact or careful.
- ‘Be not overexquisite/To cast the fashion of uncertain evils.'"1818-1819, Leonard Merrick, To Tell You the Truth, Hodder & Stoughton, pages 249-250:
- Nevertheless, in times like these it does not do to be overexquisite in emphasizing defects of system or crudities of theology.1890, The Chicago Sunday Tribune, Harper & Brothers, page 34:
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- If his humour does not often compel to Olympian laughter, it is, on the other hand, never studied nor overexquisite, nor strained for effect.1902, The Office, London, Punch Volume- CXXII, Hodder & Stoughton, page 294:
- Derived terms
- overexquisitely