overrefinement

Hume warned that overrefinement, which is born of excessive luxury, is the most extreme danger to taste and national sensibility.

The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006

Marked by an unbecoming delicacy or overrefinement

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Paradox - ically, Gothic aberration might stem not solely from rusticity and lack of cultivation but also from perverse overrefinement, as in the phenomena we now generally regard as baroque.

CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968

Little Fuzzy had known exactly what he wanted when he'd started making that thing, he'd kept on until it was as perfect as possible, and had stopped short of spoiling it by overrefinement.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

Little Fuzzy had known exactly what he wanted when he'd started making that thing, he'd kept on until it was as perfect as possible, and had stopped short of spoiling it by overrefinement.

Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1934

a most attentive observer of men, even at court, where a certain varnish of overrefinement conceals nearly all individual features.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

"worn out," but today "effete" is more likely to suggest overrefinement, weakness of character, snobbery, and effeminacy.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day 2009