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overzealously

/oh-ver-zel-uhs/US // ˈoʊ vərˈzɛl əs //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈzɛləs) //

狂热地,热心地,全力以赴,踊跃地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : too zealous: overzealous for reform.

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Examples

  • San Diegans deserve to be protected from overzealous law enforcement and companies that try to profit from the absence of expert and community oversight.

  • At the bottom of the list are protein-heavy products like jerkys and meat sticks, which score so poorly largely because their overzealous protein content throws their Nutrient Score to the moon.

  • The first time you set up a video doorbell with motion detection, it will likely be a little overzealous with its communication.

  • She’d scream at me for unpredictable reasons, like making copy-editing suggestions she deemed overzealous.

  • Recently, he said he asked his children’s pediatrician if he was an “idiot or an overzealous parent” in his push to allow youth sports.

  • And an overzealous medical professional, hoping to safeguard against malpractice, can also be a cause of unneeded procedure.

  • What you least desire can happen, particularly when the passion of a goal results in overzealous actions.

  • Both McCauley and the glowing plant team worry that overzealous regulation could kill the nascent DIY Bio movement.

  • An overzealous (and yes, probably liberal) IRS lawyer overreacted to this flood of applications.

  • He was viewed as an overzealous evangelical Christian who at least was tough on crime, and kept the guerrillas in check.

  • Sometimes an overzealous office-boy would try to drive one of these poor fellows away, and woe to that boy if Field found it out.

  • And even the brain is not so easily cut out, as many an overzealous materialist may think.

  • Perhaps he was overzealous in the work at times, and if he had spared his strength more he might be still with us.

  • Yet in this case, as in others, insurrections against the sway of scientific truth appeared among some overzealous religionists.

  • I daily paid my compliments to the bishops, though ordinarily I was not overzealous in such matters.

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