overweening in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for overweening in the English»Italian Dictionary

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The political as well as the religious fanatic appeals from the overweening opinion and claims of others to the highest and most impartial tribunal, namely, his own breast...
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Was it intended to protect the states from overweening federal or foreign power?
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They resent being treated as suspicious individuals by an overweening bureaucracy just because they value trust and privacy.
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It is, however, his overweening rudeness to people that's most striking.
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In most cases the main reason is the overweening power of self-serving military and police forces.
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Subsequent events revealed his overweening ambition.
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But somehow this piggy, cute, overweening word is right.
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The leitmotifs have been overweening ambition and hubris.
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But where do you draw the line between portrait and self-portrait; foreground and background; the unduly retiring and the overweening?
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He served up the sort of blunt talk that his supporters praise along with lines that critics cite when they label him an overweening narcissist.
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