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Meanings of overweening in anglès

Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings.

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Presumptuously arrogant.

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Examples for "uppity"
Examples for "uppity"
1
And I don't mean by the hour, so don't go getting uppity.
Happiness key
2
But the odd combination may elicit a Pavlovian response from uppity shareholders.
Reuters
3
So I'd advise you to be a bit less uppity, Arren Cardockson.
The dark griffin
4
I just started this case and I'm already sick of uppity perverts.
Crooked little vein
5
Let's call Bland's cause of death what it really is: Being uppity.
Ebony
Usage of overweening in anglès
1
Will they criticise the security measures as overweening, ostentatious and largely unnecessary?
Independent.ie
2
For clearly your jealousy of Caleb's God-given wit is overweening your reason.
Caleb's crossing
3
She had cultivated an overweening conscience in her relations with Mrs. Bogardus.
The Desert and the Sown
4
He had the pride, at once resigned and overweening, of a doctrinaire.
Queen Victoria
5
It was, however, almost the last exhibition of his overweening youthful egotism.
The Measure of a Man
6
Now ye may hear a tale of great overweening and dire revenge.
The Nibelungenlied
7
I have no fear, declared the man whose vanity was so overweening.
The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal ...
8
You have an overweening conceit of yourself, sir, that displeases your Queen.
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
9
That lot were overweening at the best of times, and of late .
Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers
10
They had lost the radiant light of God in heaven through overweening pride.
Codex Junius 11
11
Nor was this anticipation the mere offspring of an overweening confidence in themselves.
The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans ...
12
This Rabbi stood in need of correction on account of his overweening conceit.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
13
What was that about casting off the yoke of overweening government?
The Guardian
14
Self-confidence in youth is an overweening insolence towards time and Nature.
Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
15
He shouted with overweening triumph: The translation of that is South Carolina nigger.
Lady Baltimore
16
The periodic resignation of the overweening Bernard Kouchner aside, things are going well.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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