Definitions
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- adj. Excessively precious; contrived, artificial.
Etymologies
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over- + precious
Examples
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At times, the food has been overprecious (recall the expensive taster boxes sparingly filled with thimble-sized morsels of cured salmon belly); at other times, cutting-edge avant-garde (think exploding beet bombs and urchin soup served in twitching shells).
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Do they actually honestly serve a useful purpose, or are they just a typically overprecious and unnecessary health and safety measure?
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