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- adjective Excessively troubled.
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- adjective Excessively
troubled .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Buckingham accuses him of having done, "overtroubled" himself with the marriage.
Bacon John Morley 1852
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In the present day we are not overtroubled by any scruples of reverence for either old widowhood or old spinsterhood; and the 'Sisters Gemini' had become a standing joke with the self-styled 'wise and witty' of London restaurants and late suppers.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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In the present day we are not overtroubled by any scruples of reverence for either old widowhood or old spinsterhood; and the 'Sisters Gemini' had become a standing joke with the self-styled 'wise and witty' of London restaurants and late suppers.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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In the present day we are not overtroubled by any scruples of reverence for either old widowhood or old spinsterhood; and the 'Sisters Gemini' had become a standing joke with the self-styled 'wise and witty' of London restaurants and late suppers.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Regarding thus cheerfully and hopefully its own sorrows, it is not overtroubled by those of others, however tender and helpful its sympathies may be.
Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888
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