What is "overzealous"

Usage examples of "overzealous".

However, after an incident in Poznan in which a suspicious railway police inspector and an overzealous guard had ended up in a carriage toilet with broken necks, they had jumped train and relied on improvisation and expediency to cover the remaining distance.

In the aftermath, an overzealous warbird captain had overstepped his authority by destroying that Federation vessel, forcing Koval to have him summarily executed.

Later he got in trouble for chasing grief-stricken relatives of the Valujet crash victims, a squalid little hustle that Humberto blamed on overzealous staff members at his law firm.

Of the thirty transport barges and floating bridges the Pannions had used to cross the Catlin River, only a third remained serviceable, the others having fallen prey to the overzealous White Face Barghast during the first day of battle.

He had had to endure three more drubbings by overzealous MP officers until a special order was circulated explaining the position of Fleet versus Ground Force personnel.

And my religion is comforting, if you factor out some of the ridiculous stuff that sometimes rolls off the tongues of overzealous clerics.

She was as a hopeless patient, in the reeking antiseptic death cubicle of a modern hospital, freed at last from the hands of youthful and overzealous doctors, to give up the ghost on a white pillow Enough.

She was as a hopeless patient, in the reeking antiseptic death cubicle of a modern hospital, freed at last from the hands of youthful and overzealous doctors, to give up the ghost on a white pillow alone.

A few of the Intendants had been sulky or downright hostile, but most understood their place and were overzealous in trying to please her.

There were no miswritten orders, no tables that were neglected while others were overserviced, no perfectly cooled cups of coffee topped off on the sly by overzealous pot-wielders.

Yes, the Americans were wrong to react so strongly, but that would not have taken place at all if not for the overzealous police officer.

Eesyan had heard stories from Earth of equipment being installed with known flaws, vehicles going out of control, structures falling downusually through overzealous pursuit of their upside-down value system that rewarded ownership of wealth more than the creation of itbut what went on there was their business.