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
They were overweeningly met by some incapable upstarts of yesterday, whose devotion was not to outlast the 20th May.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
"Upon my word, sire, I cannot very well tell you—some overweeningly conceited device—that is the sense of it; the words have little to do with the thing itself."
From Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas père
