overstructured love

Definitions

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  • adjective Excessively structured.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ structured

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Examples

  • When I step back, I often realize her rebellion is because her pre-k and home life are overstructured and overfull.

    Rebel Angel | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted — private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training — edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses.

    Extreme Parenting 2006

  • Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted — private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training — edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses.

    Extreme Parenting 2006

  • When I step back, I often realize her rebellion is because her pre-k and home life are overstructured and overfull.

    Rebel Angel 2008

  • At that time the only bras available in the markets were sad, heavy, overstructured things.

    In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

  • At that time the only bras available in the markets were sad, heavy, overstructured things.

    In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

  • You want to come home relaxed, refreshed, and rested, not totally exhausted from an overstructured schedule of “fun.”

    No Time For Sex David Arp 2004

  • You want to come home relaxed, refreshed, and rested, not totally exhausted from an overstructured schedule of “fun.”

    No Time For Sex David Arp 2004

  • CNN has gotten way overstructured, and so I just loved this-it was just this long, lingering thing with news footage of the past.

    Grodin Loves Regis ��� Secrets of Seinfeld ���Camille Paglia Leaves a Message for MSNBC 1998

  • On the other end of the continuum are young people who have been overstructured and overprogrammed.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

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