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overbearing adjective
Meaning : Expecting unquestioning obedience.
Example :
The timid child of authoritarian parents.
Insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter.
Synonyms : authoritarian, dictatorial
Meaning : Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
Example :
Some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines.
Haughty aristocrats.
His lordly manners were offensive.
Walked with a prideful swagger.
Very sniffy about breaches of etiquette.
His mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air.
A more swaggering mood than usual.
Synonyms : disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
