overbearing
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I mean, some are cliches because they are true: Overbearing fathers trying to dictate what’s best for their children.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026
Overbearing guests, boatmances and explosive fights, all while crammed into a couple rooms underwater, are part and parcel of the “Below Deck” franchise.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022
Q. Re: Overbearing parents: My mother can be exactly as you discussed, although luckily she does not live nearby.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2013
By Q. Overbearing, Creepy In-Law: My husband and I, newly married, recently moved to the same town in which his bachelor brother lives.
From Slate • Sep. 10, 2012
From off on the right, his heavy bulbous body lurching dangerously on the spindly legs which barely supported him, came the Overbearing Know-it-all, talking continuously.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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