overjealous


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Adj. 1. overjealous - suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover"
distrustful - having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson
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One or two hold promise but Sarah can't seem to find the time for any relationship to marinate while dealing with her father's overzealous and overjealous girlfriend, her brother Michael's marital problems, and her sister Carol's rebellious teenage daughter.
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If anything of the sort was in the first place possible, that is because the two had very similar casts of mind and soul, both prone to violence and both delighting in egocentrism, both tending to accuse the other of being the real tyrant and the overjealous partner.
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