单词 | over-courteous |
释义 | > as lemmasover-courteous over-courteous adj. Brit. , U.S. ΚΠ a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse ii. i. 16 in Poems (1638) The one [is] Colax, that to seeme over Courteous falls into a servile flattery, the other..is Dyscolus. 1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke I. xiii. 98 The matter-of-fact shortness of Miss Bubbleton's not over-courteous manner. 1937 Amer. Antiq. 2 245 This over-courteous method..results in scientific purpose being supplanted by an emotional purpose. < as lemmas |
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