Overcultivated

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Excessively cultivated.

    "The overcultivated, emotionally constrained New York of Edith Wharton and Henry James — who appears in the novel as a force for debilitating self-control — resounds in the morality tale of Theodore’s demise."

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"The overcultivated, emotionally constrained New York of Edith Wharton and Henry James — who appears in the novel as a force for debilitating self-control — resounds in the morality tale of Theodore’s demise."

Etymology

From over- + cultivated.

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