overprecious
English
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editoverprecious (comparative more overprecious, superlative most overprecious)
- Excessively precious; contrived, artificial.
- 1969, Jōchi Daigaku, Monumenta Nipponica:
- The ethos is all too easily misunderstood as an overprecious, bloodless, mindless civilization.
- 1989, Bill Bryson, The lost continent: travels in small-town America:
- But it was just a gift shop selling overprecious reproductions at outrageous prices — brass candle snuffers at $28, reproduction apothecary jars at $35...