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Meanings of overweening confidence in inglês

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Usage of overweening confidence in inglês
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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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As the "Kid," in his overweening confidence, said, "Ain't we peaches?
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" / From the Diary of Number Five of ...
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It was a salutary lesson, tending to temper his overweening confidence and to humble his contemptuous pride.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
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He is much blamed here on account of his overweening confidence, and foolish and culpable negligence in this respect.
The Story of My Life / Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Publi...
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His overweening confidence confounded her.
The Top of the World
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Making light of it or of our enemies may inspire a moment's overweening confidence, but would ensure ultimate defeat.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry
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Genlis, full of overweening confidence, and desirous of acquiring singly the whole glory of relieving the city, disregarded this advice.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 18: 1572
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He spoke, as ever, with overweening confidence, but she knew that he would never win any editorship in this spirit.
Queed: A Novel
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Others there are who have such overweening confidence in their own smartness that their lives are nothing but a series of losses.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
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The chasm, therefore, betwixt the only daughter of the wealthy Mr. Bernard and himself, was wide-wideenough to check even an overweening confidence.
The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
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Overweening confidence in the prowess of her army led Sparta to trample with ruthless disdain on the rights of others.
Sea-Power and Other Studies
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"Anything," replied Considine, with the overweening confidence of youth.
The Settler and the Savage
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