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- adjective Too studious.
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- adjective Too
studious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Hemon's prose suffers occasionally from the overstudious diction of the non-native speaker, but he is clearly a writer of some promise."
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary 2010
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He remembers the brown, overstudious eyes, fervently searching for a better world, incapable of compromise or diversion.
Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003
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Girls who were overstudious, and not physically strong, could not at any rate play on the team, and therefore they seldom attended such meetings.
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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He corresponded with his college friends, and of this date is a letter of remonstrance at his overstudious habits from the sententious H.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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