overexquisite

English

Etymology

over- +‎ exquisite

Adjective

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.

References

• “overexquisite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.