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overbearing in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- expecting unquestioning obedience
"the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
authoritarian dictatorial overbearing
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
"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"- W.L.Shirer
disdainful haughty imperious lordly overbearing prideful sniffy supercilious swaggering
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