Their insatiable greed and overweening ambition knows no bounds. From LearnThat.org. [Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566), Spanish missionary, historian, a valuable source, called æApostle of the Indies.Æ]
Had a witty but overweening manner. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a brash, insolent, overweening fellow. ,overweening prejudice; overweening pride. From Dictionary.com.
She had offered him all the sacrifices that he did not want, and she stood before him in overweening confidence that she ran no other risks than those she had foreseen. From Wordnik.com. [Indiana] Reference
Another extraordinary characteristic of the book is its combination of supreme humility with what the enemy might describe as overweening arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out"] Reference
I get to use the word "overweening" for something!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
They suffered from the ancient Greek disease of hubris, a kind of overweening arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [The Very Best MenFour Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA] Reference
Are you just some populist slave, some kind of overweening and colicky infant in search of surrogate mamas and papas, role models, and the like?. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0] Reference
The ancient Greeks had a word for it: hubris, which might be defined as a kind of overweening pride, one that impelled mere mortals to believe they could act like gods. From Wordnik.com. [Antiwar.com Original] Reference
When for pride overweening the War-Scylfings first did. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
I have no overweening desire to monkey with Mr. Gould. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
His overweening egotism had sucked the life-blood of Spain. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Zeus punishes overweening pride, and his correcting hand is heavy. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
The characteristic tone of the '60s was that of overweening confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Air Remembers Historian Tony Judt] Reference
Maybe they should not have taken such overweening pride in their coverage. From Wordnik.com. [Diplomatic Diary: The End Of The Crown Princes] Reference
It is astonishing how constantly fond overweening prejudice deceives itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
America needs to shed its overweening pride and hubris, its greed and racism. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Critics say his ambition is unbridled, as overweening as his fortune is large. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Club] Reference
The periodic resignation of the overweening Bernard Kouchner aside, things are going well. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Every fresh instance of submission naturally swelled the overweening insolence of the Deys. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
"Your overweening conceit would be laughable if it were not so irritating," Myra retorted curtly. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
But Japan needs much more, including freer immigration, freer trade and a less overweening government. From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Race to Somewhere] Reference
There must be an overweening confidence in the safety of burlesque to make such an experiment possible. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
His eyes never left Ta-user for long, and his every word seemed to be inspired by some overweening emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The evil of conceit and overweening self-esteem may be shown emphatically by the use of such selections as these. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
My ambition has been overweening for Champney's material success -- I have urged him on, when I should have restrained. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Not to mention an overweening message from some officials that to question or disagree with the government was unpatriotic. From Wordnik.com. [The New Face Of America] Reference
Americans were fighting "Japs," because they were cruel, vicious, cunning and had an overweening ambition to rule the world. From Wordnik.com. [Our Neighbors Called Us 'Japs'] Reference
Actuated by overweening curiosity, or else by a thirst for blood, the big cat returned again and again to the edge of the hole. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
But their voices are strangely muffled on subjects close to home -- like divorce, pride, greed and overweening personal ambition. From Wordnik.com. [What Ever Happened To Sin?] Reference
Others there are who have such overweening confidence in their own smartness that their lives are nothing but a series of losses. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
To reread the Clinton speech in Beijing is to see a woman preparing to cast aside the schisms created by overweening American exceptionalism. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Swagger] Reference
To dominate had been the keynote of her father's character; his death had been a fitting symbol of his overweening desire to pursue that phantom. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
The rest of Nader's program focuses on the redistribution of wealth, the overweening power of the corporate culture and the dangers of globalization. From Wordnik.com. [Nader And The Push For Purity] Reference
His father was much disquieted by this overweening conceit, and the flippancy with which he spoke of such a serious thing as war, and solemnly declared that if ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
As it was, the only effect of this overweening affection, on their part, was to produce a slow reversal of some of the ordinary relations between parents and children. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
But, the puritan objects, the overweening pride which is one of the poet's most distinctive traits renders impossible the humility of spirit characteristic of religious reverence. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
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