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overbearing
adj 1: expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of
authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing
behavior toward the waiter" [synonym: {authoritarian},
{dictatorial}, {overbearing}]
2: 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 [synonym:
{disdainful}, {haughty}, {imperious}, {lordly},
{overbearing}, {prideful}, {sniffy}, {supercilious},
{swaggering}]