Meanings
adverboverprotectively (comparative more overprotectively, superlative most overprotectively)
comparative more overprotectively · superlative most overprotectively
- In an overprotective way.
Shafak sketches these Armenians flatly and superficially, as uniformly and fiercely anti-Turk — and as overprotectively fretful about beautiful and bookish Armanoush.
2007 January 21, Lorraine Adams, “Armenian in Istanbul”, in New York Times
Origin
Translations
Polish nadopiekuńczo
- nadopiekuńczoin an overprotective way
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