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  • adjective Excessively attentive

Etymologies

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over- +‎ attentive

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Examples

  • The candles, the music, the overattentive waiters—that stuff was amazing enough.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • The candles, the music, the overattentive waiters—that stuff was amazing enough.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • One of them is being able to dump your drink in the grass after your overattentive cater waiter refills your vodka glass with water.

    Far From the Hamptons Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • It's scary but I'm an overattentive sahm and I've found mystery bruises on The Baby when I undress her at night, with no CLUE as to when she got hurt.

    Internal Wrestling Match kittenpie 2007

  • Zoë's name is not, apparently, ironic; as Brookner girls go, she is quite vivacious, and she has an observant eye that enables her swiftly to spot a moral flaw or a show of vanity in others; her mother's rich and well-meaning cousins are lambasted for being lazy, spoiled, and overattentive to their appearance.

    The Mistress of Gloom 2001

  • Zoë's name is not, apparently, ironic; as Brookner girls go, she is quite vivacious, and she has an observant eye that enables her swiftly to spot a moral flaw or a show of vanity in others; her mother's rich and well-meaning cousins are lambasted for being lazy, spoiled, and overattentive to their appearance.

    The Mistress of Gloom 2001

  • The cook left; the boys had a disease called roseola; Agnes, who was still drunk with her engagement, was of no assistance, but kept flying up to London to push Rickie's fortunes; and, to crown everything, the matron was too bright and not motherly enough: she neglected the little boys and was overattentive to the big ones.

    The Longest Journey 1924

  • Sometimes it is lawlessness, sometimes overattentive law enforcement.

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN FARRELL 2011

  • Oh, because it is OBVIOUS that Steele is talking about Demoncrats and the DNC and the national liberal media that takes special zeal in thier overattentive denegrating, name calling, and racial innuendos about all black republicans!

    The Nation: Top Stories John Nichols 2010

  • I found the service to be extremely overattentive at the hostess station when we first arrived to the point of annoying.

    Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA 2010

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