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What (who) is overweening - definition
overweening
If you want to emphasize your disapproval of someone's great ambition or pride, you can refer to their overweening ambition or pride. (FORMAL)
'Your modesty is a cover for your overweening conceit,' she said.
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
Overweening
·noun Conceit; arrogance.
II. Overweening ·adj Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
overweening
a.
Conceited, haughty, proud, arrogant, opinionated, egotistical, consequential, supercilious, vain, vain-glorious, puffed up.
Examples of use of overweening
1. There‘s a thinness and overweening graphic ease about his talent.
2. To be brought down by an overweening rival is rather Shakespearean.
3. The regimes beggar status and its overweening arrogance do not make sense.
4. This should be a morality story of overweening vanity and arrogance reaping their inevitable reward.
5. Moreover his overweening dependence on the Americans has angered conservatives at home and his neighbours.