Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an overweening manner; with too much conceit or presumption.
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- adverb In an
overweening way;arrogantly .
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Examples
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If stating these things makes me overweeningly pompous, so be it.
An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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To help those with children understand IVF on their own terms, I've started to quantify my progress the way they do their kids' ages, by overweeningly counting the months.
My Fertility Crisis Holly Finn 2011
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I how many awards I've won and while I am I am overweeningly proud of the work that, believe me, I did not do on my own.
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They are completely unfair, implacable and of course revisionist in all their overweeningly partisan stances on any and all issues of the day.
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In reality, Spence is an intimidating and overweeningly confident attorney who uses a common touch and baritone drawl to his advantage.
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But then, what Prime Minister including and since Sir Robert Walpole (who loosely invented the post) has been anything other than bonkers; overweeningly ambitious; venal; or permutations of all three character defects?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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We all of us have a deep cringe factor to children who are overweeningly advanced for their years hehe at the Michiko Kakatani reference.
<a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/02/oh-you-know-how-i-adore-dakota-fanning.html" title="Oh, you know how I adore Ann Althouse 2007
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Even though Montaigne quotes Cicero often throughout his Essays, that does not stop him from taking Cicero and Pliny the Younger to task for being “overweeningly ambitious” and having the nerve – the nerve!
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Even though Montaigne quotes Cicero often throughout his Essays, that does not stop him from taking Cicero and Pliny the Younger to task for being “overweeningly ambitious” and having the nerve – the nerve!
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I was certain that inside the room, he appeared overweeningly powerful — broad taut shoulders, big hands hanging loosely by his side, forward-thrust torso balanced on strong legs.
Death on the River Walk Hart, Carolyn 1999
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