Crossword-Solution: OVERWEENING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overweening | a. | Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. |
| Overweening | n. | Conceit; arrogance. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “OVERWEENING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down- NY Times | 1 answer |
| Presumptuous | 42 answers |
| Proud ___. | 49 answers |
| arrogant | 78 answers |
| Pompous ___ | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OVERWEENING (5)
John and his family, however, piqued themselves not a little upon this picture, and were proportionably censured by the neighbourhood, who pronounced that the cooper, in sitting for the same, and yet more in presuming to hang it up in his bedchamber, had exceeded his privilege as the richest man of the village; at once stept beyond the bounds of his own rank, and encroached upon those of the superior orders; and, in fine, had been guilty of a very overweening act of vanity and presumption.
But what chances of escape are there for you, with an enemy so close at hand?" Gustavus Adolphus displayed the modest diffidence of a hero, whom an overweening belief of his own strength did not blind to the greatness of his danger; John George, the confidence of a weak man, who knows that he has a hero by his side.
But these preparations, which bespoke less of true courage than of weak and overweening confidence, did not prevent the Swedes from marching against Mentz, and making serious preparations for an attack upon the city.
But instead of thus furthering his object, he sacrifices the whole--and his story becomes, instead of a broad and faithful human record, really a curiosity of autobiographic perversion, and of overweening, if not extravagant egotism of the more refined, but yet over-obtrusive kind.
But in that moment from his mind and eyes Athena tore away the nightmare-fiend Of Madness havoc-breathing, and it passed Thence swiftly to the rock-walled river Styx Where dwell the winged Erinnyes, they which still Visit with torments overweening men.
Quotes with OVERWEENING (3)
Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered causality, is closely connected with, and structured by, the categories of the subconscious, the inner impulses of man's nature. At first glance the scope of fantastic literature, free as it is from the restrictions of natural law, appears to be unli…
... there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi. Monstrosities who, with a smile and a comforting pat on the head, are willing to sacrifice a child upon the altar of their own overweening ambition and pride.
But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty... But knowing your limits and going to them isn't arrogance. It's greatness of spirit.