Words similar to overbearing
Example sentences for: overbearing
How can you use “overbearing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Sometimes Skeat's tactic when confronted, either with evidence of error--which occurred very rarely indeed--or with a complaint about his overbearing lack of tolerance of those who knew less than he or had committed the unpardonable sin of failing to have both his books and the latest fascicle of the OED at hand, was to go all soft with humility.
Most critics agree the film is heavy on melodrama, and the father's character is implausibly overbearing.
To hold that psychology--even physiology--has no relationship to grammar seems overbearing to me, for experience has a great deal to do with how we use and understand language, which I consider highly associative.
The response No problem is probably intended as a sincere expression of willingness to serve, but it comes across as a polite way of saying, I don't really mind your having taken up my valuable time coping with the mentally and physically taxing demands imposed by your overbearing, though trivial request, because I am an accommodating, thoughtful person paid to occupy myself with major decisions concerning issues of earthshaking consequence, with but don't let it happen again implied.
Dr. Laura herself comes off as a somewhat cruel, mostly good-hearted, totally overbearing nag.