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• s  unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
  overweening ambition
  overweening greed
• s  presumptuously arrogant
  had a witty but overweening manner
  no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet

• I don't think I'm the only tech-happy person who would love to get information beamed to my wrist it's a perennially good idea but I also can't believe it's overweening .
• Divas are expected to be difficult; opera lore is rife with tales of their devouring egos and overweening eccentricities -- not to mention the outrageous quirks of arrogant male .
• But we weren't prepared for the overweening bureaucratic scrutiny the agency subjected us to.

• excessive
• extravagant
• exuberant
• uppity

News & Articles

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• Robert Kuttner: Thinking About the Government
  We have almost reached a tipping point where majorities of Americans who want to government to be on their side look in vain for a government that actually serves them. Meanwhile, the national security state is more overweening than ever. Instead of having a government that delivers practical help while restraining its own excesses, we have one that is doing far too little to keep us ...
  June 17, 2013 - The Huffington Post

Quotes

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• Alan Johnson in Prospect Magazine
  As Alan Johnson said in a recent debate on obesity: "On the one hand we are castigated for introducing an overweening nanny state, while on the other we are told that we have not taken enough action."
• Arthur M Schlesinger Jr in Dover-Sherborn Press
  I believe history is a moral necessity,said Schlesinger, "for a nation possessed of overweening power. It is the best antidote to the delusions of power."
• J Jayalalithaa in Khabrein.info
  The agreement has "secret clauses and an overweening jugglery of words", Jayalalitha alleged.