Overfond

The new Anna Pigeon mystery reminds me of why I gave up on Nevada Barr years ago (lurid and incoherent); Elizabeth and Mary is repetitive and overfond of the first queen at the expense of the second; the new Dennis Lehane is too hairy-chested; and those New Yorkers pile up as readily on my iPod as they do on the bathroom scales. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

Not that he was become afraid, or overfond of the corner by the fire and the well-filled pot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The orcs were not overfond of contingency plans, Cairne had learned. ❋ Christie Golden (2010)

These Berbers, however, are true barbarians, overfond of Búzah (the beer of Osiris) and not unfrequently dangerous. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Perhaps a little volatile in its politics — the later sixties saw some flirtations with modish Third Worldism, and even a willingness to be gulled by the neo-Stalinist charlatan Louis Althusser — and sometimes overfond of opacity in prose, the NLR strove to uphold a staunch internationalism and an independence from the mental categories of the Cold War. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Because I am not overfond of the rather strong smell of the fruit, I left it out on the verandah - and this was the result. ❋ Glenda Larke (2008)

Think about it: Here's this strange guy, just WAY too overfond of children, who already has several acusations of molestation against him- one of which ended up in court. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Rhavas had no great love for Zautzes; the man was a lecher, and also overfond of wine, at least by the prelate's austere standards. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2005)

‘I guess you young aristocrats are never overfond of doing much with your own arms and legs.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)

Though never overfond of my late daughter, I had a proper pride about her. ❋ Unknown (2003)

:/I have come to the conclusion that I am really not overfond of ethics in the least. ❋ Qdiosa (2003)

Both of them wrote to me from time to time, and Joscelin was not overfond of my friendship with Severio, having never quite forgotten that I had once, briefly, entertained his offer of marriage. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)

For I am not overfond of so ungrateful a task as translating, and would rejoice to see less versions and more originals; so the latter were not as bad as many of the first are, through want of encouragement. ❋ Unknown (2002)