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Overbearing Adj Bossy Arrogant Decisively Important Importance Unimportance

Word overbearing
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."

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