Adjective

(en adjective)

Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.

* Shakespeare

Here's an overweening rogue.

She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she's overweening .

*1870 ,

*:No success rendered him overweening and no disaster was ever known to stagger his firmness.

*1908 , Frederic Bancroft and William A. Dunning,

*:The Senate was displaying an overweening hauteur as if it were the government.

Exaggerated, excessive

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Adjective

(en adjective)

of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic

* 1996 , Jeet Heer, Gravitas , Autumn 1996

[...] the eloquence and truth of his tribute stands in marked contrast to Kramer's churlish caricature of Kael as a happy pig wallowing in the dirt.

rude, surly, ungracious

stingy or grudging

(of soil) difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable

*1730–1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland

*:Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread,t

*:And force a churlish soil for scanty bread.