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overweening
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synonyms: imperious, supercilious, vainglorious, grandiloquent, high-toned, turgid, tumescent, orotund, orgulous, thrasonical, ~magniloquent, ~hauteur ???
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Definition:1. overly arrogant; conceited2. excessive or exaggerated
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SUB. Soon at night, my Dolly,
When we are shipp'd, and all our goods aboard,
Eastward for Ratcliff, we will turn our course
To Brainford, westward, if thou sayst the word,
And take our leaves of this o'er-weening rascal,
This peremptory Face.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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I did not mind this money meagreness. The disdain I had learned for money from the oyster pirates had never left me. I didn’t care over-weeningly for it for personal gratification; and in my philosophy I completed the circle, finding myself as equable with the lack of a ten-cent piece as I was with the squandering of scores of dollars in calling all men and hangers-on up to the bar to drink with me.
Jack London. John Barleycorn
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