overpermissive

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English

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ permissive.

Adjective

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overpermissive (comparative more overpermissive, superlative most overpermissive)

  1. Excessively permissive; allowing too much leeway.
    • 1975, Thomas D. Gnagey, How to Put Up with Parents: A Guide for Teenagers, page 90:
      It is the overpermissive parent who raises the well known spoiled brat.
    • 2003, Liz Palika, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yorkshire Terriers:
      The most common type of owner I see with Yorkies are the overpermissive owners. Overpermissive owners want to spoil their dogs and usually freely admit they spoil their dogs.
    • 2005, Martine Irma Robbeets, Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?, page 136:
      The Mongolic proposal for 'strap, tether' is semantically overpermissive.
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