Overprecious

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Excessively precious; contrived, artificial.

    "The ethos is all too easily misunderstood as an overprecious, bloodless, mindless civilization."

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"The ethos is all too easily misunderstood as an overprecious, bloodless, mindless civilization."

Etymology

From over- + precious.

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