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Meanings of
overweening
in anglès
Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings.
excessive
extravagant
exuberant
Related terms
unrestrained
Presumptuously arrogant.
uppity
Related terms
immodest
Sinònims
Examples for "
excessive
"
excessive
extravagant
exuberant
Examples for "
excessive
"
1
Republicans view the law as
excessive
government intrusion into the healthcare market.
2
Collecting data every minute is certainly
excessive
;
every 10 minutes should do.
3
To set a good example, you don't need to be so
excessive
.
4
French health authorities say this use of the newer pills is
excessive
.
5
Did you know health and safety legislation protects you against
excessive
noise?
1
He had
extravagant
ideas of beginning in some much more fundamental way.
2
They are both
extravagant
turkey dinner occasions that last for several days.
3
Paul had never been particularly adept at accepting compliments, especially
extravagant
ones.
4
This grievance was rooted in the idea that she was ruinously
extravagant
.
5
You have always heard me
extravagant
in the praises of the situation.
1
Even at its normal price, this
exuberant
Spanish example offers startling value.
2
Thomas said in a level, most un
exuberant
voice: That's splendid, Father.
3
But beyond these individual cases, stock investors, as a group, are
exuberant
.
4
She was expansive in her person, prodigal in sympathy,
exuberant
in dress.
5
Brown warned the state not to get
exuberant
over its improved finances.
Usage of
overweening
in anglès
1
Will they criticise the security measures as
overweening
,
ostentatious and largely unnecessary?
2
For clearly your jealousy of Caleb's God-given wit is
overweening
your reason.
3
She had cultivated an
overweening
conscience in her relations with Mrs. Bogardus.
4
He had the pride, at once resigned and
overweening
,
of a doctrinaire.
5
It was, however, almost the last exhibition of his
overweening
youthful egotism.
6
Now ye may hear a tale of great
overweening
and dire revenge.
7
I have no fear, declared the man whose vanity was so
overweening
.
8
You have an
overweening
conceit of yourself, sir, that displeases your Queen.
9
That lot were
overweening
at the best of times, and of late .
10
They had lost the radiant light of God in heaven through
overweening
pride.
11
Nor was this anticipation the mere offspring of an
overweening
confidence in themselves.
12
This Rabbi stood in need of correction on account of his
overweening
conceit.
13
What was that about casting off the yoke of
overweening
government?
14
Self-confidence in youth is an
overweening
insolence towards time and Nature.
15
He shouted with
overweening
triumph: The translation of that is South Carolina nigger.
16
The periodic resignation of the
overweening
Bernard Kouchner aside, things are going well.
Other examples for "overweening"
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overweening
overween
Verb
Present
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
overweening pride
overweening confidence
overweening conceit
overweening self
overweening vanity
More collocations
Overweening
through the time
Overweening
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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