Meanings
adjectiveover-sensitive (comparative more over-sensitive, superlative most over-sensitive)
comparative more over-sensitive · superlative most over-sensitive
- alternativeAlternative spelling of oversensitive.
The reason it’s worth standing up for punctuation is not that it’s an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied.
2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Introduction – The Seventh Sense”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 20
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