overprecious
adjEtymology From over- + precious.
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Excessively precious; contrived, artificial.
- The ethos is all too easily misunderstood as an overprecious, bloodless, mindless civilization.1969, Jōchi Daigaku, Monumenta Nipponica:
- But it was just a gift shop selling overprecious reproductions at outrageous prices — brass candle snuffers at $28, reproduction apothecary jars at $35...1989, Bill Bryson, The lost continent: travels in small-town America: