over-conscientious

A local farmer's son, a shy, gentle, over-conscientious eighteen-year-old, home for the weekend from his first term at university, had taken his father's gun and shot dead both parents, his fifteen-year-old sister and, finally, himself.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

Rorlund: My dear Mr. Bernick, you are almost over-conscientious.

Pillars of Society 2008

Rorlund: My dear Mr. Bernick, you are almost over-conscientious.

Pillars of Society 2008

It's diligent, capable, and it held my attention; but it's also pedestrian, over-conscientious, and committedly bourgeois.

John Farrow: Ice Lake Michael Allen 2005

It was a face somehow typical of the meticulous over-conscientious bureaucrat, not perhaps a man whom housewives, paying over their weekly pittance, would invite into the back room for a chat and a cup of tea.

The Murder Room James, P. D. 1988

A curious thing, that so over-conscientious a youth should be paying so little heed to the holy office.

The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

“He knew about it … he may have seemed absent-minded or rather frivolous, but in point of fact he never forgot anything and he was if anything over-conscientious as far as his professional life was concerned …”

Maigret and Monsieur Charles Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1972

There can be no reasonable doubt that she _was_ harassed as all over-conscientious people are -- with the fear and consciousness that her duties were not half done.

Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman

He has always been serious and over-conscientious, always anxious to devote his life to the service of other people as a reparation for a tragedy which was never in the least his fault.

The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World Margaret Vandercook

Act.applied to all craft, including fishing boats, and that great expense was undergone by some over-conscientious owners in fitting ventilating drums and shafts in accordance with the Act. If the statute applied to any drifter it would apply to the _Meum and Tuum_, and FitzGerald evidently thought that the intention of the Act.was that fishing boats should be exempt.

Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" James Blyth