Thesaurus / overweening
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It may have been Milburgh's overweening faith in his own genius.
THE DAFFODIL MYSTERYEDGAR WALLACEAnd have you, young lady, any of that overweening prejudice in favour of your own island?
THE TWO ADMIRALSJ. FENIMORE COOPERHis overweening conduct gradually made his position at Berlin untenable.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAREDWIN EMERSONI have been,' said James Dutton to me at the last interview I had with him, 'all my life an overweening self-confident fool.
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 440VARIOUSThe Hanseatic League had long been offended at their overweening pride; and it now left them and removed its factory to Antwerp.
THE REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS, COMPLETEFRIEDRICH SCHILLERMy ambition has been overweening for Champney's material success—I have urged him on, when I should have restrained.
FLAMSTED QUARRIESMARY E. WALLERCroustillac had that overweening belief in himself which one finds only among the Gascons.
A ROMANCE OF THE WEST INDIESEUGNE SUEThe whole mood of the music was triumph, overweening boastfulness, and irresistible arrogance.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHESHe was a vain man, and possessed an overweening amount of self-confidence, especially where women were concerned.
IN FRIENDSHIP'S GUISEWM. MURRAY GRAYDONBut the overweening ambition of these Gulf ports, threatening as they did the supremacy of New York, led to intense rivalry.
RAILROADS: RATES AND REGULATIONSWILLIAM Z. RIPLEYWORDS RELATED TO OVERWEENING
- ascendant
- autocratic
- bossy
- cavalier
- cocky
- despotic
- dictatorial
- disdainful
- dogmatic
- egotistic
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- imperative
- imperial
- imperious
- insolent
- magisterial
- officious
- oppressive
- overweening
- paramount
- peremptory
- predominant
- preponderant
- prevalent
- proud
- regnant
- sniffy
- snotty
- sovereign
- stuffy
- supercilious
- superior
- tyrannical
- uppity
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