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over·de·mand·ing | \ ˌō-vər-di-ˈman-diŋ 
, -ˈmän-, -dē- \
, -ˈmän-, -dē- \Definition of overdemanding
: excessively demanding overdemanding children/parents an overdemanding boss/client an overdemanding workload … he is making himself as unpleasant and overdemanding as possible, to see if the staff will stay polite and efficient under the most annoying kind of pressure.— J. C. Furnas
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The first known use of overdemanding was in 1949
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