overbearing

Words with a similar base: overbearing

'overbearing'

[overbear.v.01] as in: overcome

Examples:
overbear criticism, protest, or arguments

'overbearing'

[overbear.v.02] as in: bear too much

'overbearing'

[bear_down.v.02] as in: contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery

'overbearing'

[authoritarian.s.02] as in: expecting unquestioning obedience

Examples:
the timid child of authoritarian parents
insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter

'overbearing'

[disdainful.s.02] as in: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; ; ; ; ; ; ; - W.L.Shirer

Examples:
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

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