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Meanings of overweening in inglés
Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings.
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Usage of overweening in inglés
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.
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