overbearingadjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈbeə.rɪŋ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈber.ɪŋ/disapprovingtoo confident and too determined to tell other people what to do, in a way that is unpleasant:
Milligan had a pompous, overbearing father.
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Giving orders & commands
- all-points bulletin
- behest
- boss
- bossyboots
- chain of command
- charge
- crack the whip idiom
- defy
- demand
- dun
- enjoin
- expect
- forget
- harry
- lay down the law idiom
- mandate
- ordain
- order sb around
- prescribed
- steamroller
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