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overweening N

overweening
مَغْرُور

overweening ADJ

overweening

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Indeed, their intellectual self-regard is so overweening that they are compelled to disclaim it mid-tantrum.
observer.com
Her intentions were good, but overweening kindness is almost as insulting as people who flinch.
www.slate.com
Nothing like the arrogance and overweening pride of a believer.
religion.blogs.cnn.com
But somehow this piggy, cute, overweening word is right.
www.marketplace.org
They resent being treated as suspicious individuals by an overweening bureaucracy just because they value trust and privacy.
www.telegraph.co.uk
It is, however, his overweening rudeness to people that's most striking.
www.independent.co.uk
He served up the sort of blunt talk that his supporters praise along with lines that critics cite when they label him an overweening narcissist.
www.stuff.co.nz
I am not against cooperation between public institutions and private companys, except when it is with companies with such overweening profit margins.
singularityhub.com
But where do you draw the line between portrait and self-portrait; foreground and background; the unduly retiring and the overweening?
www.independent.co.uk
The not-so-subtle point about triathletes is the overweening desire to show that they are simply better than everyone else.
www.ft.com

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