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

Overbearing \O`ver*bear"ing\, a.

  1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing.
    --I. Watts.

  2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. [1913 Webster]
    -- O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overbearing

figurative present participle adjective from overbear (v.) in its sense "to bear down."

Wiktionary
overbearing

a. overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.

WordNet
overbearing

adj. expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" [syn: authoritarian, dictatorial]

Usage examples of "overbearing".

Now twenty years old, Clementine looked like her mother, but where Augusta was overbearing, Clementine was sly.

He was a naturally aggressive and overbearing man but Kaft had the knack of making him feel adolescent and unruly.

Still, neither of the other two were the least condescending or overbearing about it.

No matter how arrogant or overbearing his demand was that she marry, then divorce him, she would never stop loving him.

I felt nothing, only an overbearing sorrow and bewilderment I could not analyze or explain to myself.

Season with your overbearing brothers fighting to be your escort, Sera.

Whether I am safely wed to a stuffy old prude of a husband or chained to an equally overbearing prig of a brother.

Chillingworth and Dumond probably thought they could push your overbearing brothers-in-law to challenge you by propagating those ruinous lies.

A man of his size should have been awkward or overbearing when he wrapped his arms around a woman.

That young lady had an overbearing father, and this young man wanted to wed his true love before he joined the army.

And it was bringing them nearer, moment by moment, to the majestic and overbearing ship that held dominion over this section of the river.

My father--our government--were painted as overbearing and belligerent.

Added to that complicated set of circumstances was the fact that Jonathan was overbearing, arrogant, and much too sure of his ability to manipulate her for Regina to feel comfortable with the relationship.

Eventually, he had fought in court to help her get a divorce, telling the judge that it had been her dysfunctional relationship with her overbearing husband that had caused all her problems in the first place.

He was a strange one, she thought with a faint smile, forceful and overbearing, yet seemingly gentle and kind as well.