expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" 同义词:authoritarian, dictatorial,
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 同义词:disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering,
例句与用法
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He was clever, bad-tempered, and overbearing . 他聪明,暴躁,专横。
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At the office he was mean and overbearing . 他在公司里表现得卑鄙专横。
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He 's so overbearing that no one wants to work for him . 他那么专横,没人愿为他工作。
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We must overbear . 我们要勇往直前。
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The tendency to substitution may be overborne by a contrary tendency . 替代的趋势也许会被一种相反的趋势所压倒。
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During nixon's ascendancy, too many staffers were overbearing . 在尼克松蒸蒸日上的时期,他的手下人一个个骄横跋扈。
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They were insolent and overbearing to the servants and friends of penelope . 他们对待佩内洛普的仆人和朋友傲慢无礼。
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Their overbearing bureaucracy and their self-satisfied airs are really more than one can stand . 他们那种神气十足的官僚架子实在叫人吃不消。
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She remembered to hate her father's overbearing manner toward her kindly-souled mother . 她记得他曾很恨父亲,因为他对心地善良的母亲非常蛮横。
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She remembered to have hated her father's overbearing manner toward her kindly-souled mother . 她记得他曾很恨父亲,因为他对心地善良的母亲非常蛮横。