Word | overbearing |
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Part of Speech | ADJ. |
Definition | bossy; arrogant; decisively important. |
Sentence | Certain of her own importance and of the unimportance of everyone else, Lady Brocknell was intolerably overbearing in her manner. "In choosing a good husband," she said, "good birth is of overbearing importance; compared to that, neither wealth nor talent signifies." |
Tags: psat
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