Posted on 02/09/2015 6:12:46 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, February 9, 2015 – overweening
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
overweening; adjective 1. presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud: a brash, insolent, overweening fellow. 2. exaggerated, excessive, or arrogant: overweening prejudice; overweening pride.1300-50; Middle English overwening (e) (gerund); see overween, -ing2 Related forms Expand overweeningly, adverb overweeningness, noun •
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
>> Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
Here is my example with >> WFTD.
Brian Williams brought low by overweening hubris. Lordy, could the man even tell the straight truth about ANYTHING?
Do i look tan to you? ; )
Been snowing since late yesterday afternoon. Do I look pi$$ed off to you?
I remember that my little brother couldn’t get overweening and my mom had to nurse him until he was almost four years old.
Isn’t that when the baby bites you and you cut them off from them on without a second chance?
oh Ti, i am so sorry! we came back to noVA on a day where temps had reached a record high 68 degrees here. But it’s going to plummet again later this week, don’t fear. It did sort of ease our transition.
A+++ i knew the breastfeeders would get in early! ; )
second breastfeeder on the thread! ; ) A+++
First grin of the day... :)
they’ve met their match in each other~!
On the good news front, the scales show a 5 lb. loss in less than a week. I hadn’t been weighing in, so I was surprised when I decided to. People are beginning to notice the weight loss and comment.
On the wedding front people are booking tickets to the west coast for the wedding. YEA! We will have good friends to party with along with all of the groom’s family.
Yes, but only the parts I can see.
No, it’s when they can say “Other side, please”.
LOL
I blame the overweening klan of kardashian for making him insane in the membrane.
Freakshow is understating that horror. The fact that the paparazzi is chasing him and filmed it all only adds to the freakihorrorness of it all. It’s like a train wreck, we can’t look away.
Barack— pompous, smug, overweening
See him strutting and bragging and preening
The biggest of phonies
No brains, no cojones
He gives “liar” and “fraud” a new meaning
Found a high end bridal shop here that has all the colors I could want for a dress....however....the Chinese New Year is on...they take 3 weeks off. The dress couldn’t come in before mid May bc of that. I was shocked. A 3 week holiday that shuts down all the dress making shops. Amazing.
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