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overprecious en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + precious.

Meanings

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

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