Definitions
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- adjective Too delicate.
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- adjective Excessively
delicate .
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- adjective extremely delicate
Etymologies
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over- + delicate
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Examples
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It was a rather overdelicate way of phrasing it, and the moment it had passed her lips, she wished she had been more frank.
A Funeral In Blue Perry, Anne, 1938- 2001
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From the long eyebrows and sensitive mouth to the small hands and feet, everything about him was too much chiseled, overdelicate.
The Gadfly 1912
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Juste's air was slightly mocking, and words of not overdelicate banter rose to his lips, to be instantly quelled by La Boulaye.
The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912
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