overweening

  • (s) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
    • extravagant praise
    • exuberant compliments
    • overweening ambition
    • overweening greed
    extravagant, excessive, exuberant,
  • (s) 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
    uppity,

Synonyms

extravagant excessive exuberant uppity

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