Thesaurus / overbearing
other words for overbearing
- autocratic
- bossy
- cocky
- dictatorial
- high-handed
- imperious
- oppressive
- tyrannical
- ascendant
- cavalier
- despotic
- disdainful
- dogmatic
- egotistic
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- imperative
- imperial
- insolent
- magisterial
- officious
- overweening
- paramount
- peremptory
- predominant
- preponderant
- prevalent
- proud
- regnant
- sniffy
- snotty
- sovereign
- stuffy
- supercilious
- superior
- uppity
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Overbearing to those he distrusted, irritable among shams, he was charity itself to real merit and to the poor.
THE INCENDIARYW. A. (WILLIAM AUGUSTINE) LEAHY
It was insolence—brutal, overbearing insolence, with physical menace behind it.
THE CROXLEY MASTER: A GREAT TALE OF THE PRIZE RINGARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
You are overbearing and insolent, while he is modest and good-natured.
GRETTIR THE STRONGUNKNOWN
For a while, the unwholesome idea filled me, with a sensation of overbearing desolation; so that I could have cried like a child.
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLANDWILLIAM HOPE HODGSON
She was a handsome woman, but proud and overbearing, and could not endure that any one should surpass her in beauty.
SNOWDROP AND OTHER TALESJACOB GRIMM
He turned into a restaurant, and in a masterful and overbearing way ordered his dinner.
THE COLOSSUSOPIE READ
In this miserable state we are still further depressed by the overbearing influence of the crown.
"Some of these blooming chaps are as overbearing as they can be," remarked the Englishman, after matters had quieted down.
DAVE PORTER IN THE FAR NORTHEDWARD STRATEMEYER
No overbearing cane keeps company with my silken parasolette.
THE LIFE AND BEAUTIES OF FANNY FERNANONYMOUS
The burly, big, overbearing man in the doorway was of a different frame of mind.
OLD JUDGE PRIESTIRVIN S. COBB
WORDS RELATED TO OVERBEARING
- aloof
- assuming
- audacious
- autocratic
- biggety
- bossy
- bragging
- cavalier
- cheeky
- cocky
- cold-shoulder
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- domineering
- egotistic
- haughty
- high and mighty
- high-handed
- imperious
- insolent
- know-it-all
- lordly
- on an ego trip
- overbearing
- peremptory
- pompous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- proud
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-important
- smarty
- smug
- sniffy
- snippy
- snooty
- snotty
- stuck up
- supercilious
- superior
- swaggering
- uppity
- vain
- wise guy
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