overweening

IPA: oʊvɝwˈinɪŋ

(now rare) An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.

Examples of "overweening" in Sentences

Their overweening pride was seen.
Overweening praise is counter productive.
Subsequent events revealed his overweening ambition.
Overweening vanity formed a strong part of Cruikshank's character.
What might seem like overweening ambition is actually a patriotic chore.
Similarly, your allegation of sectarianism upon me is also quite overweening.
This overweening weenie ness of yours is unseemly, as well as wilfully stupid.
Catholics are just as prone to turn that overweening sense of orthodoxy on each other.
Its most compelling character, however, is the family's overweening patriarch, Christopher.