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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

"You are talking overweeningly," cried Antonio in wrath; "or rather you are utterly ignorant of what you are saying, and I deserve not this language from you."

From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

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 Putnam, Allen