Usually means: Excessively arrogant or presumptuous behavior.
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  1. overweeningly: Merriam-Webster
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  6. overweeningly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. overweeningly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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▸ adverb:  In an overweening way; arrogantly.

Similar:
overbearingly, overdaringly, overreachingly, overboldly, overexuberantly, overeagerly, overly, overabundantly, overlarge, overmanner, more...

Opposite:
humbly, modestly, unassumingly

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Similar:
overbearingly, overdaringly, overreachingly, overboldly, overexuberantly, overeagerly, overly, overabundantly, overlarge, overmanner, more...

Opposite:
humbly, modestly, unassumingly



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