How to use "overweening" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi
Example sentences for "overweening" in popular movie and book plots
- From this point on events precipitate out of control as everything becomes a prey to chance: Pepé, the maldextrous cavalier, gets himself caught up in a duel in order to defend Stellina, a situation which he could have easily avoided had he not asked for help from his overweening and domineering brother-in-law, the lawyer Ciro Coppa, who insists that he must challenge his adversary or be looked on as a coward. - The Turn (novel)
Example sentences for "overweening" in interesting articles
- The real cause, argues Nick Eberstadt, a demographer at the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC, is not any country's particular policy but “the fateful collision between overweening son preference, the use of rapidly spreading prenatal sex-determination technology and declining fertility.” These are global trends. - Gendercide: The worldwide war on baby girls
- And that is: an overweening desire to be distracted from being alone in silence ... - In Praise of Silence
- It was the first time in 14 years that Nixon lost an election.When he arrived in the White House as VP at the age of 40, he was a smart young man on the rise -- a hubris-crazed monster from the bowels of the American dream with a heart full of hate and an overweening lust to be President. - He was a crook (1994)
- Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science movement, was militant about quality control: as the late psychologist Eugene Taylor pointed out in Shadow Culture (1999), instead of a loose-knit confederation of churches over which she could exert little control, Eddy’s ministry was constituted around an overweening mother church. - Like startups, most intentional communities fail. Why?
Meaning of "overweening" in English
- presumptuously arrogant
Examples
- no idea how overweening he would be
- getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down - unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
Examples
- exuberant compliments
- overweening ambition
- overweening greed
Meaning of "overweening" in Hindi
- आत्मविश्वास
- अभिमानी
- घमंडी
- अक्खड
- उद्वत
- अति अहंकारी
Synonyms of "overweening"
- excessive
- exuberant
- extravagant
- uppity
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