zealous

In the first place, I have never been a zealous student.

I think you are zealous, but that's part of the job.

It was quite natural that such people would not be especially zealous.

Since his heart attack, he'd become all the more zealous.

Now he was to be particularly zealous in the interests of the king.

Are they saying he was too zealous in his advocacy?

Despite its low ratings, the show has a zealous following.

I did not doubt but what she would be zealous to please.

"Maybe they were a little too zealous," he said later.

He was the most zealous patriot she had ever met.

It means one who is zealous on behalf of God.

Sometimes when workers are "a little bit too zealous," children die.

"I think having it 100 percent in place by the fall may be overly zealous."

One who knew her said she was "a holy and zealous woman."

Among other things, it made the company zealous about controlling costs.

I just have to make sure they don't get too zealous.

But the zealous pursuit of disease did not end there.

"In the real world they aren't because one person is always a little more zealous than the other."

Early Government planning for the project was eager, almost zealous.

Obama became a zealous convert on the issue of cost control.

Zealous conservation, he wondered, or people who had left town already?

They were being very zealous, wouldn't allow the city to move.

"That's the point at which I got zealous about never throwing things away," he said.

A zealous and diligent man is ready for all things.

As a practical matter, an overly zealous government can work against the public interest.