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  • adjective Excessively fastidious

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Examples

  • Dekker was a most voluminous writer, and not always overparticular whence he got, or how he used, the material for his tracts and plays.

    Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

  • Mr. Lincoln was not overparticular in his matter of dress, and was also careless in his manners.

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • As a rule she was not overparticular, but just then she was in that state of nerves when little things fretted her.

    Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

  • We were slouches, I know, with rumpled hair and, I fear not overparticular as to our linen during the greater part of the week.

    The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Mr. Lincoln was not overparticular in his matter of dress, and was also careless in his manners.

    The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

  • "I've got a sort of a pipe here," said Doak, "if you're not overparticular what you smoke."

    The New Boy at Hilltop Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • I had heard before getting there that the breechless sons of the Lothians were not averse to a wee drop of "rock and rye," and not overparticular if the rock was left out, and faith, Mr. Speaker, observations convinced me that they had not been slandered.

    Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

  • In the above stated instance, and others similar to it, it at first seems as if the spirits were overparticular, and "finnicky" about the conditions, but a little careful thought will show you that this is not the real state of affairs at all.

    Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • Then you will ruin me too, for Sam Raynes -- not that he is overparticular, nor that he cares twopence about refinement, or anything of that sort -- would not care to marry a girl whose -- whose sister was put in prison.

    Wild Kitty L. T. Meade 1884

  • Austrian princes, and so on, I was extremely particular, perhaps overparticular.

    Quaint Courtships William Dean Howells 1878

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