overeager
Speech parts
1. overeager - Adjective
2. overeager - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Too eager; too impatient.
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overeager in his pursuit of the girl
As audiences by now expected, Ibsen's next play again attacked entrenched beliefs and assumptions; but this time, his attack was not against society's mores, but against overeager reformers and their idealism.
If the overeager Burris wanted to preserve his reputation as an “honorable man” untainted by Illinois politics, he should have done the honorable thing and stayed out of this.
She rejects his first fumbling attempt to kiss her, but mostly in an effort not to seem overeager.
Before he found his footing there, he suspected — not incorrectly, Ms. Bowens said — that he came across as an overeager suburbanite.
This motivated overeager and ignorant central planning politicians to jump at the opportunity to get some mileage among even more ignorant voters by killing a large percentage of entrepreneurs.