Overweening

a.	1.	Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. The conceits of warmed or overweening brain. - Locke. Here's an overweening rogue. - Shak.
n.	1.	Conceit; arrogance.

Adj.	1.	overweening - unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, excessive
	2.	overweening - presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times Synonyms: uppity

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