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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

"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 Dumas père, Alexandre

Tom felt himself rather a desirable person suddenly; by no means negligible at any rate; pleased and satisfied with himself, if not yet overweeningly so.

From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon

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