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Adjective: overweening  'ow-vu(r)'wee-ning
  1. Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
    "overweening ambition";
    - excessive, extravagant, exuberant
     
  2. Presumptuously arrogant
    "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be";
    - uppity

See also: immodest, unrestrained

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