overcautious

How To Use overcautious In A Sentence

• A recent examination of the cutting applied to bottles fitted into hallmarked frames has proved time-honoured views about dating early English cutting to have been overcautious.
• He, too, played overcautiously, taking 55 minutes over a scratchy seven. Times, Sunday Times
• Everyone but Lincoln had lost patience with McClellan's overcautiousness and when he failed to follow Lee's retreat from Antietam, Lincoln removed him and placed in command Burnside, whose defeat at Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324
• However, don't let yourself become boring and overcautious.
• However, Murphy soon gave the impression that he was a cautious man working for an overcautious board and progress was simply too slow.
• In many cases, lenders have been overcautious. Times, Sunday Times
• State entities tend to be overcautious and complacent.
• It appears that this game does not reward overcautiousness because by being too focussed on one's own protection, one's pieces will be slower to get to the end of the board while one's opponent's pieces may pass one by. Archive 2009-03-01
• Don't fall into the trap of being overcautious. Times, Sunday Times
• This wasn't merely overcautiousness or simple misjudgment. Forbes.com: News