over-carefullyadv.

1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xiii. 195 Some gentlemen..supposing that by the attainder of Sir Walter Raleigh the grant to him was forfeited, not enquiring over carefully whether the sentence of an English court could affect lands not within the jurisdiction of that court [etc.]

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xiv. 296 ‘The sister’, said Bradley, separating his words over-carefully, and speaking as if he were repeating them from a book, ‘suffers under no reproach’.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood ii. 9 Life, for you, is a plum with the natural bloom on; it hasn't been over-carefully wiped off for you.

1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 122 Three basia or shorter and smaller oscula have been overcarefully scraped away.

1991 E. R. Taylor Tomorrow 73 Miss Danziger judged that the story would be over-carefully related that morning, for many of the children were very young and the more lurid details..might be regarded as too frightening for them.