over-careful

Similar to the Law of Fail ( "Once a web community has decided to dislike an idea, the conversation will shift from criticizing the idea to become a competition about who can be most scathing in their condemnation."), Google is entering the moment where it has to be over-careful not to offend, and extremely attentive to whether they are treading lightly.

Anil Dash 2009

Similar to the Law of Fail ( "Once a web community has decided to dislike an idea, the conversation will shift from criticizing the idea to become a competition about who can be most scathing in their condemnation."), Google is entering the moment where it has to be over-careful not to offend, and extremely attentive to whether they are treading lightly.

Google's Microsoft Moment - Anil Dash 2009

Broadway cast recordings are raw and kind of desperate; they contradict the stereotype of Broadway musicals as over-polished, over-careful.

The Broad Way Jaime J. Weinman 2007

Broadway cast recordings are raw and kind of desperate; they contradict the stereotype of Broadway musicals as over-polished, over-careful.

Archive 2007-07-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

In her present mood, Mrs. Quiverful was not over-careful about her attire.

Barchester Towers 2004

The girl left, walking on chunky, out-of-style heels with the over-careful tread people used in cemeteries.

Every Secret Thing Lippman, Laura, 1959- 2003

She was not a woman of strong understanding or any quickness; and with this resemblance of her father, she inherited also much of his constitution; was delicate in her own health, over-careful of that of her children, had many fears and many nerves, and was as fond of her own Mr. Wingfield in town as her father could be of Mr. Perry.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

They were long, and so over-careful as to be almost incomprehensible.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

Earlier expressions might easily be overlooked as emanating from a politician never over-careful about wounding the sensibilities of foreign nations and peoples, for he had been even more outspoken against the France of

Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams

He thought his mother was over-careful; and so, one day, when nobody was watching him, he slipped away from her, and sat down amid the grass, under two high beech-trees.

The Nursery, No. 103, July, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various