Definition of Overweening. Meaning of Overweening. Synonyms of Overweening

- their own superiority the greater. In the Septuagint, the "hubris is overweening pride, superciliousness or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution...
- Chinese political system and criticized Chinese leader Xi Jinping for his "overweening pride" and "vanity politics." In August 2018, Hong Kong-based academic...
- also detected in Oppenheimer something that many others did not, an "overweening ambition", which Groves reckoned would supply the drive necessary to...
- extravagance". A film critic for the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Cameron's overweening pride has come close to capsizing this project" and that the film was...
- international tourist attraction. The early years of his reign saw the overweening involvement of the Gr**** shipping tycoon Aristotle On****is, who took...
- his Hebrew subjects, one rooted in a perception that they possessed an overweening influence in Germany, was so strong that it could not be overcome". Cecil...
- Holocaust denier, describing him as a "dupe of intellectual pride so overweening that he is incapable of making distinctions between totalitarian and...
- of shaping their own fates. Everything they do is subordinate to an overweening, irresistible force, which is Kubrick's highly developed aesthetic; they...
- medium enterprises and vigorous anti-trust laws to restrain or eliminate overweening economic power. Christian democratic political parties such as the American...
- the companionship of Joseph's sister, Marie Christine of Austria. The overweening character of the Emperor was obvious to Frederick II of Prussia, who...