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Significados de overweening en inglés

Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings.

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Presumptuously arrogant.

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