overexquisite
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
overexquisite (comparative more overexquisite, superlative most overexquisite)
- 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.'"
- 1902, The Office, London, Punch Volume- CXXII[2], 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 edit
- “overexquisite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.