| 词汇 | overweeningly |
| 释义 | overweeningly adverb formaldisapprovinguk /ˌəʊ.vəˈwiː.nɪŋ.li/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwiː.nɪŋ.li/ in a way that is too proud or confident in yourself: 傲慢地;自负地;过于自信地 She appears overweeningly confident in her own talent.她似乎对自己的才华过分自信。 I was overweeningly proud of my profession. 我为自己的职业感到无比自豪。 See overweening He is overweeningly self-important. This electoral system should prevent overweeningly powerful governments. Most people found her overweeningly concerned with style. Showing arrogance and conceit (as) proud as Luciferidiom airs and gracesidiom arrogant arrogantly as if you owned the placeidiom egoistic egoistically egomaniacal egomaniacally egotistic patronizingly pomposity pompous pompously popinjay swollen head swollen-headed talk down to someone think the (whole) world revolves around youidiom throw your weight aroundidiom Examples of overweeninglyoverweeningly All in all the book is a remarkable achievement, clearing away many of the historiographical myths surrounding this overweeningly ambitious prelate. It is an outrage that incompetent, overweeningly arrogant behaviour can produce a result that will lead to total chaos and will add enormously to the expense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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