Examples of 'overweening' in a sentence
Meaning of "overweening"
Overweening (adjective): Used to describe someone who is excessively arrogant, presumptuous, or overconfident in their abilities or opinions
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- Unduly confident; arrogant
- Exaggerated, excessive.
- An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.
- present participle of overween
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It demonstrates an overweening arrogance of a type seldom seen.
Subsequent events revealed his overweening ambition.
I have an overweening belief in the intelligence of people.
A folly conceived out of arrogance through overweening ambition.
The idea of overweening pride seems possible.
Is it possible that from overweening pride.
An overweening pride in his own powers.
Evil on the part of overweening.
They knew that overweening pride preceded a fall.
For black despair is the very core of overweening arrogance.
An overweening love of domestic animals.
His ambitions were overweening.
It was not overweening to make these people legendary and famous.
He wants to memorialize his odyssey as a warning against overweening government power.
More likely it is an overweening concern for moral authority.
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But ordinary citizens also have a right to be skeptical of an overweening scientism.
Only an overweening selfishness.
He has come to this point as a result of his overweening parliamentary majority.
The overweening complexity takes the fun out of the narration.
The government should act as a savvy customer rather than an overweening supervisor.
Shoejob overweening heels.
The myth is also evocative of hubris, the human tendency for overweening arrogance.
The overweening power of the executive at the expense of the legislature.
He is a bit overweening.
The overweening young lord was obviously taken aback when his water pillars were devoured.
No insults to which we respond with strength and self-assurance and overweening confidence.
He is a bit overweening He takes orders from no one.
Deregulation would be reconfigured as toothless regulation ( with its overweening regard for the market ).
They deplore the overweening power given in this Parliament to the political groups.
It was quite simply a matter of Bradlee 's overweening ambition.
The politician's overweening desire to prove himself to the.
He was the embodiment of what the Greeks called hubris, or overweening pride.
Of course, such an overweening purpose did not develop all at once.
This being, once called Lucifer, is a fallen angel filled with overweening pride.
Because of his overweening ambition, he could not bear to be exposed as a plagiarist and a liar.
Along the way, she has borne criticism for German overweening.
Because of his overweening ambition, he could not bear to be exposed as a pIagiarist and a liar.
Once again, the American bias everywhere is toward a powerful, overweening central state.
Because of her overweening pride, she refused to let him lie on top of her.
In order to somehow express his Qur'anic prowess Anthony Rogers made an ignorantly overweening statement.
Only an overweening selfishness . They want everyone to be just like them.
After all, the Duke of Soaring Dragon had overweening ambitions.
Some sort of overweening pride, I suppose that you think simply overwhelms me clouds my judgement.
She was, to be frank, somewhat weary of her unbearably overweening daddy.
Some sort of overweening pride, I suppose that you think simply overwhelms me clouds my judgment.
And he is a decent man, but with an overweening pride… yeah.
Lash hence these overweening rags of France these famish'd beggars, weary of their lives.
The dangers are through ignorance, carelessness, or stupidity - or overweening lust of result.
Lash hence these overweening rags of France these famish would beggars, weary of their lives.
Chiefly, he overthrew Crassus, who first through his overweening.
