英语词汇“over、nice”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

over-nice

释义

ˈover-ˈnice, a.
[over- 28.]
Too nice; too fastidious, scrupulous, or particular.
c1315Shoreham Poems iv. 313 Þys senne [pride] hys ouer-nyce,..Þe senne of meste malice Aȝeyns charyte.1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 452 Their..ouernice brauerie in gawdy apparell.1687Shadwell Juvenal Ded. A ij, These Nymphs though they are so over nice in words, may perhaps, be frank enough in their actions.1789Jefferson Autobiog. & Writ. (1859) II. 559 Not over-nice in the choice of company.1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh viii. 769 Not being overnice to separate What's element from what's convention.
So ˈover-ˈnicely adv.; ˈover-ˈniceness; ˈover-ˈnicety.
a1693Ld. Delamere Wks. (1694) 86 The fierceness of the High Church-Men will be abated, and the overniceness of the Dissenters taken off.1700Congreve Way of World i. vi, You don't take your friend to be over-nicely bred?1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. 8 Overniceness may be underniceness.1754― Grandison VI. xxvii. 165 A little over-nicety at setting out, will carry them into a road they never intended to amble in.1897Crockett Lads' Love xxv. 258 It was no time for over-nicety in regard to the fifth commandment.

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