5 example sentences using overbearing.
Overbearing used in a sentence
Overbearing in a sentence as an adjective
"Certainly the prosecution was overbearing, and MIT could have been more on Aaron's side.
I guess that discourages randomly checking the box, but if they had just labelled it "Allow third party extensions" it would make the change seem less overbearing.
I don't know what the exact issue is, but I was physically/sexually abused as a child, had overbearing parents, and so on, so it's hard to correlate just exactly what's behind it.
Many times people rightly ask "why on earth would a terrorist blow up a plane or building or make roadside bombs" ?Their goal is exactly what we are now marching into: people fearing and loathing their overbearing governments.
I'll entertain that argument, though I think it is a wee-bit overbearing on her part to assume what will and what won't scare off this youngster; I don't believe, for example, that simple clumsy bawd would actually be enough to ruin software development for all people forever--and honestly, how many of us would want to work with someone who can't take the occasional obscene joke?This is where I have a problem with the author's actions: I decided to do things differently this time and didnt say anything to them directly.
Overbearing definitions
expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
See also: authoritarian dictatorial
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
See also: disdainful haughty imperious lordly prideful sniffy supercilious swaggering