How to pronounce“overweening”in English
adjor actually do things in a different way because, as you say, kind of the spectacle and the theater of American politics
has become overweening, and the public service has really seemed to take second place to grandstanding.
But who else, like, are there any other emerging leaders that you're watching that actually bring you hope?
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Definitions of “overweening”
Unduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant.
“She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.”
Exaggerated, excessive.
“The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages.”
An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.
“Let us suppresse this over-weening [translating cuider], the first foundation of the tyrannie of the wicked spirit[…].”
present participle and gerund of overween
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