adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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her overbearing husband
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His wife felt stifled in the presence of her overbearing mother-in-law.
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The manager can be very overbearing at times, and it's difficult to argue with him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From being a painfully shy, diffident recluse, he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert.
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I only know there was a father who was both idolised and undoubtedly feared, a dogmatic and overbearing Catholic.
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Much of the blame for the schism is generally attributed to Nikon, the overbearing prelate elevated to the Patriarchate in 1652.
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She would not cry over such an overbearing , ill-tempered brute.
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Strident, overbearing leadership is inadvisable in this political culture.
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The overbearing Palais de Justice is his least-loved legacy, but the Cinquantenaire museum complex is worth a visit.
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The overbearing sophistication of conceptualism and minimalism did not guarantee success in art for anyone.
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The last thing she wanted was to have some overbearing man muscling in.