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- adj. Common misspelling of overweening.
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Examples
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Because even those cowards and fools unwilling to challenge their repulsion, those who insist, in overweaning arrogance, that their "intuition" is divinely inspired, in making such a claim, explicitly admit to being ruled by prejudice rather than reason, revealing also a conceit that they could not possibly be wrong, a heinous pride that is entirely at odds with their claimed Christian philosophy.
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For example, the response to what might be called overweaning pride or the pride that comes before the fall is negative, but appropriate pride, whatever that is, receives a positive response.
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He points to "overweaning" information control and cites a recent British study on the functioning of Freedom of Information laws that rates Canada - once the model of a good system
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Please everyone, tell this woman to withdraw and let us Democrats restore the party your overweaning ambition is destroying.
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In her overweaning sense of entitlement, she thinks that "free speech" means that I have to publish her comment.
Yet again, another leftist shows a lack of understanding of the concept of free speech
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You seem prepared to recite it, but yet you appear to be fully prepared to countenance overweaning and unthinking prejudice against others as your failure to deal with the issues properly shows.
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The most galling part of all this is that the inherent evil of this neo-fascism is shrouded for its perpetrators and press offices by a rosy, inpenetrable fog of arrogance, hubris, and an overweaning air of unacknowledged privilege and superiority.
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I always aspired to some really cool vice like overweaning ambition.
"Men and women sin in different ways," says the Pope's personal theologian.
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From what I can see, Skip Gates' overweaning sense of self-importance has a lot to do with generating what is now an national scandal.
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Does this not smack of an overweaning sense of self-entitlement?
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