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Adjective(1) (2) expecting unquestioning obedience(3) arrogant(4) domineering

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(1) It promotes a large, bureaucratic, overbearing government state which is protected from free market competition.(2) Wilhemina is a rising surgeon who begrudgingly meets and greets inept blind dates to appease her overbearing mother.(3) This is a small, proud country existing in the shadow of a large, overbearing neighbour.(4) When you have an inbred arrogance, you are undoubtedly going to appear overbearing and rude.(5) But like many young talents, he fell victim to an overbearing and ambitious parent, intent on living through his son.(6) Such a dangerous, overbearing contraption can no longer be relied upon to deliver the social contracts with its citizens that it once did.(7) You can also meet excessively overbearing golfers who want to solve everything with an arrogant order.(8) Heavy, overbearing guitars clash with feeble pianos, annoying violins, and misplaced horns.(9) I was wearing a festive but not overbearing reddish shirt and Keith was decked out in some sleek black duds.(10) A new survey has revealed that overbearing mothers-in-law are to blame for as many as one in five marriage breakdowns.(11) Besides, with my hideous deformity and your overbearing mother, we'd only be punishing ourselves.(12) Did they have an overbearing father to live up to?(13) The waiters, by the way, were exceptionally helpful without being overbearing , and really seemed to know what to advise.(14) Our disciple goes from pompous to positively overbearing .(15) The letters show a devoted if overbearing husband who constantly chides his wife to write more often and to keep up her spirits.(16) My parents aren't the snoopy, overbearing kind that stop by to check on your laundry technique.
Related Words
(1) overbear
Synonyms
Adjective
1. domineering
3. autocratic
4. tyrannical
5. despotic
6. oppressive
7. high-handed
8. bullying
9. bossy


Verb
10. bear down


📺 Word Example from TV Shows

Here is a man
raised by an overbearing woman

Here is a man raised by an OVERBEARING woman

The Big Bang Theory Season 9, Episode 12


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