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overprotectively

adverb

  1. doing too much to prevent harm to another (usually a child)
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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From overprotective + -ly.

  1. In an overprotective way.

    Shafak sketches these Armenians flatly and superficially, as uniformly and fiercely anti-Turk — and as overprotectively fretful about beautiful and bookish Armanoush.