Crossword-Solution: OVERBEARING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overbearing | a. | Overpowering; subduing; repressing. |
| Overbearing | a. | Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “OVERBEARING”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Trying to control people in an unpleasant way | 1 answer |
| Like a tiger mom | 1 answer |
| Having too many kids? | 1 answer |
| A SHARP-TONGUED DOMINEERING WIFE | 11 answers |
| Moneyed | 12 answers |
| Patronising | 13 answers |
| Overblown | 20 answers |
| Bullying | 31 answers |
| Bossy | 34 answers |
| hubristic | 35 answers |
| Masterful | 36 answers |
| authoritarian | 36 answers |
| Egotistical | 37 answers |
| vainglorious | 39 answers |
| fatheaded | 40 answers |
| Tyrannical | 41 answers |
| narcissistic | 41 answers |
| Presumptuous | 42 answers |
| lordly | 43 answers |
| assertive | 46 answers |
| Greater | 48 answers |
| pushy | 48 answers |
| Proud ___. | 49 answers |
| Posh | 50 answers |
| dogmatic | 52 answers |
| Domineering | 53 answers |
| Arbitrary. | 54 answers |
| Palatial | 59 answers |
| selfish | 62 answers |
| Dominant | 64 answers |
| Ostentatious | 65 answers |
| Imperious | 67 answers |
| autocratic | 68 answers |
| Huffy | 73 answers |
| snooty | 76 answers |
| arrogant | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERBEARING (5)
His strong, almost overbearing ego and over developed sense of worth and importance were relegated to a personality quirk common to superbright ambitious engineering types.
Holmes?” It was amusing to me to see how the detective’s overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.
The letter was well written in a bold, round hand, with many flourishes, and looked very aggressive and overbearing as it lay on the table by the side of the sheet of small note-paper in Miss Noble's faint and somewhat cramped handwriting.
She remembered to have hated her father’s overbearing manner towards her gentle, humorous, kindly-souled mother.
Holmes?” It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.
Quotes with OVERBEARING (3)
From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can’t miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil’s demons put together.
Since Sienna was in an unusually cooperative mood, the session went well. He was returning from it midmorning - after a short detour - when a small naked body barreled into him in one of the main corridors. Steadying the boy with Tk, he looked down. The child lifted a finger to his lips. "Shh. I'm hiding." With that, he went behind Judd and scrambled into a small alcove. "Quickly! Not sure why he obeyed the order, Judd backed up to stand in front of the alcove, arms crossed. …
He had insinuated himself into Nina's life in a gentle, measured way, through small gifts and intelligent, respectful notes. His attention was never overbearing, nor disturbingly selfless, but wise and reserved.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1997).