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adjectiveOverly concerned with minor details, rules, or displaying learning.
Overly focused on minor correctness
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Clear all filtersOverly concerned with minor details, rules, or displaying learning.
Overly focused on minor correctness
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An excessive abundance or very large amount.
In action, excessively hasty; also very steep.
Excessively hasty
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Overstepping proper limits through excessive confidence or boldness.
Causing strong moral disapproval or appearing shockingly excessive.
Expressing compact statements of supposed wisdom, often with excessive moralizing.
Showing an excessive and self-lowering eagerness to obey.
Showing excessive obedience or imitation with little independence.
Excessively obedient
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Excessively pleased or satisfied with oneself.
Excessively self-satisfied
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Showing attentive concern or care, sometimes excessively.
Excessively obedient or willing to put oneself below others.
Using excessive flattery toward an influential person.
Boldness that is excessive or presumptuous.
Swollen; in writing, excessively inflated or pompous.
Swollen
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So unreasonable or wrong as to offend one's sense of fairness or morality.
Offending fairness or morality
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Excessive or not justified by the circumstances.
Excessive or unjustified
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Using more words than needed.
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