Definition of overscrupulous
: excessively scrupulous
His heroes, heroines, and children are the most lovely and morally overscrupulous in English fiction.— Robert Lowell The overscrupulous TSA agent confiscated the monkey's two-inch-long toy sidearm …— Kyle Peterson
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The first known use of overscrupulous was in 1549
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