overexquisite

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English

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ exquisite.

Adjective

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overexquisite (comparative more overexquisite, superlative most overexquisite)

  1. Excessively exquisite; too exact or careful.
    • 1818-1819, Leonard Merrick, To Tell You the Truth[1], Hodder & Stoughton, pages 249-250:
      ‘Be not overexquisite/To cast the fashion of uncertain evils.'"
    • 1890, The Chicago Sunday Tribune[2], Harper & Brothers, page 34:
      Nevertheless, in times like these it does not do to be overexquisite in emphasizing defects of system or crudities of theology.
    • 1902, The Office, London, Punch Volume- CXXII[3], Hodder & Stoughton, page 294:
      If his humour does not often compel to Olympian laughter, it is, on the other hand, never studied nor overexquisite, nor strained for effect.

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