Overbearing - Definition

adj 1: expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of
authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing
behavior toward the waiter" [syn: authoritarian,
dictatorial, overbearing]
2: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful
of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty
aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked
with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of
etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious
air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn:
disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly,
overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious,
swaggering]