overconscientious

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overconscientious
Adjective
  • Emily is a conscientious worker who is constantly evaluating her performance and setting ever higher goals.
    Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
  • On the other hand lies the more difficult but ultimately more promising path: repudiation of that post-2008 legacy and a conscientious return to a politics of the prudential center.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As the once and forever Guy Ritchie mascot approaches 60 without any sign of slowing down, his signature glint continues to harden into an indestructible moral code.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2025
  • This applies to the president's diplomatic and security teams, as well as to business leaders and frat boys who all must be obey the rules that ensure moral leadership.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • That his record is treated as honorable, rather than hushed up and relegated to the trash bin of history, is a sour commentary on heroism and distinction in modern America.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The scribes of ancient Egypt were among the world’s first bureaucrats, and while scribal work was considered prestigious and honorable, a career as a scribe was also a way of evading the hardships of other forms of labor.
    Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Forbes reporters follow company ethical guidelines that ensure the highest quality.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • This is said to be the more ethical path, because A.I. will be crucial to any potential human survival.
    Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Encourage candidates to ask questions and provide honest answers.
    Rebecca Skilbeck, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Sellers are still obliged to provide accurate and honest information.
    Ron Lieber, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Functional character, product engineering, extreme study of spaces, scrupulous search for a unique design that finds in detail an extreme elegance combined with highly performing technological elements, are the thread of this innovative project.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • In leaving much of his story up to intuition — and taking a climactic turn toward the surreal — Chowdhury crafts a scrupulous slow-burn drama about a kind of obsession that, despite being opaque, comes off as entirely tragic.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Advertisement In her loneliness and, paradoxically, in her peculiarity, Mickey embodies a recognizable archetype: the righteous female cop protagonist of a prestige crime drama.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Too often, the movie suggests, it is defeated by its own righteous rigor.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • What quickly followed was a virtuous cycle of surging output, investment, real credit growth, and confidence.
    Guy Petcho, National Review, 19 Mar. 2025
  • By embracing this new approach, startups have been able to create a virtuous cycle of trust and growth around their company’s product and branding—effectively driving inbound sales through outbound interactions.
    Danylo Borodchuk, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Overconscientious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overconscientious. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.

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