Overweening vs Effrontery - What's the difference?
overweening | effrontery |
Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
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*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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An excessively high opinion of oneself or one's abilities; presumption, arrogance.
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*:Let us suppresse this over-weening .
(uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
(countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
As nouns the difference between overweening and effrontery
is that overweening is an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's abilities; presumption, arrogance while effrontery is (uncountable) insolent and shameless audacity.As an adjective overweening
is unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.As a verb overweening
is .overweening
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Here's an overweening rogue.
- She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she's overweening .
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Derived terms
* overweeningly * overweeningnessNoun
(-)Verb
(head)effrontery
English
Noun
- We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.
- Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery .