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  • adjective excessively protective, wanting to give too much protection (especially to children)

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  • adjective overly protective

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Examples

  • I was outraged, but the word overprotective was being scattershot at me by the bureaucrats in charge, the two social workers, and a psychologist.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • I was outraged, but the word overprotective was being scattershot at me by the bureaucrats in charge, the two social workers, and a psychologist.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • Whether you would call it overprotective or not, I am, apparently, a bit superstitious.

    Be Prepared kittenpie 2007

  • Whether you would call it overprotective or not, I am, apparently, a bit superstitious.

    Archive 2007-09-01 kittenpie 2007

  • The ban wasn't the idea of overprotective educrats -- it was the result rather of children and their parents who "complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will."

    Adult Supervision Charles Sykes 2007

  • In most cases, so-called overprotective parents simply care a lot and show it through lots of rules and wanting to know everything.

    The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make Sean Covey 2006

  • In most cases, so-called overprotective parents simply care a lot and show it through lots of rules and wanting to know everything.

    The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make Sean Covey 2006

  • The seat-belt legislation, which calls for a $25 fine for the first violation and a $50 fine for the second, passed one vote of the House, 197-155, three weeks ago, after a hearing in which anti-seat-belters showed up wearing chains, kneepads and crash helmets -- in a jab at the "overprotective" state.

    In the Land of 'Live Free or Die,' Some Refuse to Buckle Under Pressure 2009

  • And I think that he probably thinks that I'm kind of overprotective, but there are just so many things that are happening out there.

    Remarks At The White House Conference On Teenagers ITY National Archives 2000

  • I grew up in New Jersey, my parents were kind of overprotective, overbearing.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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