Synonym: arbitrary, arrogant, autocratic, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, masterful. Antonym: subservient. Similar words: bearing, bearings, bear in mind, rearing, wearing, tearing, clearing, disappearing. Meaning: adj. expecting unquestioning obedience.
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1 Milligan had a pompous, overbearing father.
2 She found him rude and overbearing.
3 My husband can be quite overbearing with our son.
4 He was a self-opinionated, overbearing tyrant, and he was the last man she should want to tangle with.
5 Strident, overbearing leadership is inadvisable in this political culture.
6 She would not cry over such an overbearing, ill-tempered brute.
7 The overbearing Palais de Justice is his least-loved legacy, but the Cinquantenaire museum complex is worth a visit.
8 The overbearing sophistication of conceptualism and minimalism did not guarantee success in art for anyone.
9 For Branson did not appear pompous, overbearing, practised or City-Slicker smooth in the manner of other captains of industry.
10 Some were less overtly overbearing, but no less effective in undermining their colleagues' confidence.
11 Perhaps, Carew thought, some overbearing staff officer had once ruffled his feathers.
12 The manager can be very overbearing at times, and it's difficult to argue with him.
13 A spoiled lamb will become an overbearing sheep.
14 The aging actress was very high-strung and overbearing.
15 At one time, she was known as arrogant overbearing.
16 A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
17 Promoted too quickly, the conceited young man became overbearing.
18 The whole individual takes a kind of overbearing gaudiness.
19 During Nixon's ascendancy, too many staffers were overbearing.
20 She returns to the big screen to play Candy's overbearing mother, Rose.
21 To a small parish church with few resources, the laws of copyright may seem somewhat overbearing.
22 Much of the blame for the schism is generally attributed to Nikon, the overbearing prelate elevated to the Patriarchate in 1652.
23 Although there were cousins in Los Angeles, too, the warm and sometimes overbearing sense of family was gone.
24 I only know there was a father who was both idolised and undoubtedly feared, a dogmatic and overbearing Catholic.
25 The last thing she wanted was to have some overbearing man muscling in.
26 She was shaking with the cold,(www.Sentencedict.com) but the fire in the den had been irritating and overbearing.
27 From being a painfully shy, diffident recluse, he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert.
28 His wife felt stifled in the presence of her overbearing mother-in-law.
29 An older historiographical tradition depicted Louis as an impulsive weakling, at the mercy of his overbearing wife.
30 A person who writes concise e-mail messages may seem impulsive, opportunistic, pushy, overbearing, foolish, or simply rude.
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