overbearing
sombong
definition
verb
his will had not been overborne by another's influence
overcome by emotional pressure or physical force.
adjective
his overbearing, sometimes ruthless desire to succeed
unpleasantly or arrogantly domineering.
example
The dictionary definition of arrogance suggests 'overbearing' behavior based on inappropriate views.
A new survey has revealed that 'overbearing' mothers-in-law are to blame for as many as one in five marriage breakdowns.
At all levels, cunning teachers allied with 'overbearing' students.
It promotes a large, bureaucratic, 'overbearing' government state which is protected from free market competition.
You can also meet excessively 'overbearing' golfers who want to solve everything with an arrogant order.
One man enters the male-only space to escape a conflicted marriage with his 'overbearing' , combative wife.
Heavy, 'overbearing' guitars clash with feeble pianos, annoying violins, and misplaced horns.
My parents aren't the snoopy, 'overbearing' kind that stop by to check on your laundry technique.
I was wearing a festive but not 'overbearing' reddish shirt and Keith was decked out in some sleek black duds.
Did they have an 'overbearing' father to live up to?
When you have an inbred arrogance, you are undoubtedly going to appear 'overbearing' and rude.
Besides, with my hideous deformity and your 'overbearing' mother, we'd only be punishing ourselves.
The waiters, by the way, were exceptionally helpful without being 'overbearing' , and really seemed to know what to advise.
Wilhemina is a rising surgeon who begrudgingly meets and greets inept blind dates to appease her 'overbearing' mother.
The letters show a devoted if 'overbearing' husband who constantly chides his wife to write more often and to keep up her spirits.
But like many young talents, he fell victim to an 'overbearing' and ambitious parent, intent on living through his son.
This is a small, proud country existing in the shadow of a large, 'overbearing' neighbour.
Our disciple goes from pompous to positively 'overbearing' .
Such a dangerous, 'overbearing' contraption can no longer be relied upon to deliver the social contracts with its citizens that it once did.
It claimed that an 'overbearing' and threatening management style was leading to staff stress, inefficiency and ill-health.
The commentary that accompanies the ads is eye opening, cleanly written and well-informed without being 'overbearingly' insiderish.
The film reiterates this distinction between worlds by directly contrasting the aquamarines, open sky and searing light of Spain with the cold, wet and 'overbearingly' cramped world of London.
But then, if listeners feel the instinctive need to distance themselves from this 'overbearingly' emotional display, there's also something bizarrely compelling about it, at least for me.
The fact is, many physicists can be 'overbearingly' macho about their field.
Even without the verbal clue, these shadowy, heavy, almost 'overbearingly' masculine works would suggest a world of weaponry and combat.
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