overweening

adj 1: unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise";

"exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition";

"overweening greed" [syn: {excessive}, {extravagant},

{exuberant}]

2: presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening

manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet;

"getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"-

NY Times [syn: {uppity}]