overexquisite

comparative more overexquisite · superlative most overexquisite

1. 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

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   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

   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