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Definition of "too-careful" []

  • Excessively or unduly careful (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "too-careful" in a sentence
  • "They have even used the debate to criticise the too-careful tendency of much modern parenting advice and said that a certain amount of risky challenge was healthy for an adventurous child."
  • "He was handsome enough, but up close you could see all the things the footlights would obscure: too many cross-hatched wrinkles for a man so young, desperately spiky hair with too-careful highlights, face a bit too thin, eyes a little sunken and dry."
  • "I was going to dissent from Eugene Volokh's too-careful consideration of Senator Santorum's statements on homosexuality -- especially in the light of the now-published full transcript of those statements -- but Jacob Levy beat me to it."
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