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overconscientious

adjective

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overconscientious
  1. conscientious
  2. moral
  3. honorable
  4. ethical
  5. honest
  6. scrupulous
  7. righteous
  8. virtuous
Adjective
  • Fretting about the future is a favorite preoccupation of the conscientious.
    — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
  • There is no single gene for height nor is there a single gene for being extroverted, agreeable, or conscientious.
    — Jessica Craig, Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of conscientious
Adjective
  • The work of a moral life, then, is to expand the field of vision.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • For a while, playing Drake’s music felt like taking a moral position.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of moral
Adjective
  • The group meets monthly and is open to those with honorable, general and other-than-honorable discharges.
    — Harllie Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026
  • All persons having business before this honorable court are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of honorable
Adjective
  • In neither case, by today's standards, were the operations fair or ethical on a number of fronts.
    — Space.com Staff, Space.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • As these tasks fell outside the scope of the employees' official duties, the directive amounted to a violation of ethical standards, the report concluded.
    — Andrea Hsu, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of ethical
Adjective
  • Rational, honest people understand that a part of her appeal is to middle America, particularly white people in middle America.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • There’s a lot in this film to be honest, but the first one that comes to mind is probably a moment where Tyler is leading his group in a conversation with the king for the first time.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of honest
Adjective
  • Any pause mechanism would also need to ensure less scrupulous AI labs don’t secretly keep working to advance the technology during a break, likely through checks by peer labs.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 June 2026
  • Abdul-Mateen would next find out that Kingsley has his own scrupulous process for sizing up his collaborators.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
Definition of scrupulous
Adjective
  • In hip-hop and other genres, producers were using snippets of other people’s records; courts often ruled that this was a form of theft, although hip-hop fans tended to see it as righteous theft.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • This led to a segment on Newsmax in which anchor Carl Higbie deleted one Jelly Roll song from his phone on air, demonstrating the apparent righteous power of tapping a touch-screen button.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of righteous
Adjective
  • All this creates a virtuous flywheel where more use of AI agents creates more demand for Dell’s servers, and vice versa.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • In fact, in this retelling, their free will and autonomy are essential elements of that virtuous cycle, rather than subjugated by it.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of virtuous
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