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  • adjective Excessively demanding.

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over- +‎ demanding

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Examples

  • My close friends and family are beginning to implore me to talk to my overdemanding boss who has taken too many speaking engagements this fall and spring...oh, that would be me.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Debra W. Haffner 2008

  • My close friends and family are beginning to implore me to talk to my overdemanding boss who has taken too many speaking engagements this fall and spring...oh, that would be me.

    What's the Connection?: Be fruitful and multiply also means go have sex! Debra W. Haffner 2008

  • But I'm also interested in the concrete, grungy details of overdemanding fathers who want to hear their daughters say how much they love them.

    Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony." 2004

  • But I'm also interested in the concrete, grungy details of overdemanding fathers who want to hear their daughters say how much they love them.

    Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony." 2004

  • If you are critical and overdemanding of your family, you are probably the same way at work.

    Thinking in the Future Tense A WORKOUT FOR THE MlND 2003

  • The following year, she connected with a great guy, and because she dealt with issues as they arose, she never saw him as overdemanding.

    Why Men Won’t Commit George Weinberg 2002

  • The following year, she connected with a great guy, and because she dealt with issues as they arose, she never saw him as overdemanding.

    Why Men Won’t Commit George Weinberg 2002

  • The following year, she connected with a great guy, and because she dealt with issues as they arose, she never saw him as overdemanding.

    Why Men Won’t Commit George Weinberg 2002

  • The following year, she connected with a great guy, and because she dealt with issues as they arose, she never saw him as overdemanding.

    Why Men Won’t Commit George Weinberg 2002

  • “How about the cutter?” asked Judy, but Guy refused to believe that he could have been betrayed by any of his tiny staff, all of whom had seen how hard he worked, how much he worried and how careful he was not to be overdemanding of them.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

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