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The FBI was criticized, rightly, for the overzealous domestic intelligence investigations disclosed during the 1970s.
Time 's profile of Kenneth Starr depicts him as conservative, overzealous, and nerdy.
The exclusionary rule serves a clear purpose by discouraging overzealous police officers from inappropriate behavior.
Mike Males, the author of The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents , tends to be overzealous when he argues that adults attack kids as a way of coping with their own problems, but he has a point.
Nicknaming, it seems fair to conclude, is an activity that has long delighted and entertained all Americans--white, colored, hyphenated, and just plain--and the fiercely contested clash over “Indian” nicknames appears to be largely due to overzealous activism and misdirected social reform.