12 example sentences using overweening.
Overweening used in a sentence
Overweening in a sentence as an adjective
No more overweening unions trying to do everything and sacrificing the workers, thanks.
An object lesson in overweening use of power and personality.
Fits much better in an overweening nerd-judgmental sort of recommendation too - "You're using a file manager?
See your doctor if you experience smug overweening superiority over your fellow developers greater than 6 hours at a time.
Because history has shown that in practice it isn't a weapon for use by Congress against an overweening president, but rather by one political party against the other.
There are areas where a reasonable argument can be made that overweening unions played a key role in setting up the local economy for cataclysmic failure.
If we must have a welfare state, I would much prefer the "citizens as shareholders of the country" model with a basic income, rather than the overweening paternalism of current welfare states.
One is annoyed by the pretentiousness of a genre which fends off accusations of primitivism by pleading its entertainment character and then, once such accusations have been silenced, renews its overweening claims.
Likewise, the fightback against overweening modernism has to begin by bursting the elitist bubble of faux-intellectual obfuscation that modernists have created around architecture.
What a pitiful congeries of overweening, delusional, self-important absurdities.
The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening?
Swimming against the trends and making something that's the best version of your own vision would qualify for a positive adjective like "brave".Junking your existing stuff and making your users into involuntary recruits in your drive to hijack what the pundits say is the latest and great thing merits adjectives like "arrogant", "overweening" and "full of hubris".
Overweening definitions
unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
See also: excessive extravagant exuberant
presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times
See also: uppity