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单词 over-exacting
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Definition of over-exacting in English:

over-exacting

adjective
  • Making excessive demands on someone's skills or resources.

    setting over-exacting standards of cleanliness
    this job was not over-exacting
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Since the job should not involve tasks more onerous than making platitudinous speeches to visiting dignitaries, the qualifications need not be over-exacting.
    • Never reject your patient because of lack of compliance with your over-exacting regimens.
    • Long-lasting effects can also be observed in some human beings engaged in hazardous or over-exacting work who seem to 'lose their nerve' after a time.
    • Such fastidiousness could have made him an impatient or over-exacting teacher, but that was not the case.
    • The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct.
    Synonyms
    carping, captious, overcritical, fault-finding, hair-splitting, cavilling, niggling, quibbling, pedantic, pettifogging, fussy, finicky, over-censorious, over-rigorous, over-particular, over-strict
 
 
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