Our new hotel did not represent a retreat into overnice refinement or restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Magic Kingdom] Reference
Hey - squeamish website, honourable search around some blogs, seems a pretty overnice program you are using. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Campbell Likens The Green Lantern Film to Iron Man in Tone] Reference
It is a neat argument, perhaps overnice in view of what has come to be since then. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I like it there to visit but everything seems to be forbidden and you spend a lot of time being overnice to criminals. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Don't be overnice in your exactions; if she is even a fairly good cook, waitress, and laundress, you are indeed blessed among women. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
They are a species of the “overnice,” forming a class of their own, as I told Queen Christine of Sweden, one day: “They are the Jansenists of love.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century]
Like so many of the children of the rich, he had no trace of overnice sense of self-respect, having been lying and toadying all his life to a father who used the power of his wealth at home no less, rather more, than abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I] Reference
"Where do you suppose that jewel went, Sir Governor," said the favorite, -- "that jewel which was overnice to shine at court, which set up its will against the King's, which would have none of that one to whom it had been given?". From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
His thin, little body had grown steadily thinner since he had come among the apes, for while, as a young cannibal, he was not overnice in the matter of diet, he found it not always to his taste to stomach the weird things which tickled the palates of epicures among the apes. From Wordnik.com. [Jungle Tales of Tarzan] Reference
"I have been already told that; she is one of those overnice and affectedly particular people who place heaven in the foreground in order to conceal themselves behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Years Later] Reference
And lifts young feathers, overnice. From Wordnik.com. [Country Sentiment] Reference
And not being overnice to separate. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
The captious listener finds it overnice. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 11: Poems from the Teacups Series] Reference
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