Overweening is valid Scrabble Word

Is overweening a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for OVERWEENING in dictionary:

VERB:

OVERWEEN, to expect too much; to be presumptuous or arrogant
To have excessively or unreasonably high expectations; to be conceited, arrogant, or presumptuous; to be too self-confident.
To overrate or think too highly of. Also refl.: to have too high an opinion of oneself. Now rare.

NOUN:

Conceit; arrogance.
the act of being excessively arrogant

ADJECTIVE:

arrogant, presumptuous
Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
presumptuously arrogant

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to be arrogant

Words related to OVERWEENING

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Words that contain OVERWEENING

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How to use OVERWEENING in a sentence

An overweening self-confidence and slight regard for the labours of other thinkers usually characterizes self-taught genius.
Revolving the enterprise seriously in his mind, he now began to repent of his folly, and the overweening confidence which had led him to undertake the journey.
The political as well as the religious fanatic appeals from the over-weening opinion and claims of others to the highest and most impartial tribunal, namely, his own breast.
He looks up to the distinctions of rank and station as he does to those of learning, with the gross and overweening adulation of his early origin.
Probably it is a chastisement for overweening desires, sir.
Their overweening pride and love blinds them to what is their true duty.
He brought with him from Scotland an overweening opinion of the power and dignity of his position as a king.
Through his overweening mood the bold warrior and a good brought it to the camp-fire as a pastime.
Now ye may hear a tale of great overweening and dire revenge.
This was the Baroness of Steinfeldt, famous in the neighbourhood for her insatiable curiosity and overweening pride.

We informed him of our overweening desire to view the ruins of Louvain.
But the most zealous enthusiast for the holy war could hardly be deceived by the false zeal with which the Angevin cloaked his overweening ambition.
As for what is named overweening pride and presumption, at least it shows at once and for altogether.
Thenceforward didst thou fare, far-darting Apollo, and camest to the city of the overweening Phlegyae, that reckless of Zeus dwelt there in a goodly glade by the Cephisian mere.
It was, however, almost the last exhibition of his overweening youthful egotism.
It was the overweening ambition of Louis Napoleon which led him on.
Although the earl soon regained his liberty he could not forget his disgrace, and his overweening vanity drove him to concert measures against the government.
From these causes, operating jointly, resulted undue caution at the North and overweening confidence at the South.
With the growth of the factory system and accelerated industrial development, an overweening desire for material things was awakened.
He should marry a modest, domestic girl, with tastes similar to his own, and with no overweening ambitions.
Nor will the plan be submitted in any overweening confidence in the sufficiency of my own judgment, but with much greater reliance on the wisdom and patriotism of Congress.
Jason, in overweening self-indulgence, attaches himself to a woman to whom he cannot be true.
It was a struggle of the independent nations of Europe against the overweening ambition and aggression of one Power.
She read now, in this moment of descent into misery, a dreadful blunder made by her own overweening eagerness.
He was a vain man, and possessed an overweening amount of self-confidence, especially where women were concerned.
From nervous and unreasoning dread to overweening and extravagant confidence there was but a single bound.
It was a salutary lesson, tending to temper his overweening confidence and to humble his contemptuous pride.
The first time the master met Mackenzie he took a dislike to him, perceiving his overweening vanity, his habit of contradiction, and his lack of judgment.
He was mocked of his own overweening and proud confidence.

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