overweening
adjective
presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud.
overweeningly
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a word derived from
overweening.
Example Sentences
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So in this case, being less overweeningly precious about films that are likely to be impenetrable to even the most well-informed audiences would seem an idea.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2010
Now comes Barry Diller -- hypersmart, overweeningly arrogant, terrifyingly blunt -- teamed up with John Malone, who is said to operate in a perpetual suffer-no-fools, scorched-earth mode.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though short on transportation and heavy artillery, Giap's men are tautly disciplined and almost overweeningly proud.
From Time Magazine Archive
A class of agents are now at work whose cognition may some day turn the laugh upon overweeningly wise laughers at Cotton Mather.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
Tillie was a queer, addle-pated thing, as flighty as a girl at thirty-five, and overweeningly fond of gay clothes—which taste, as Mrs. Kronborg philosophically said, did nobody any harm.
From The Song of the Lark by Willa Sibert Cather
