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overbearing
Domineering in manner; arrogant:
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  1. Domineering in manner; arrogant:
  2. Overwhelming in power or significance; predominant:
  3. Of transcending importance; overriding
commanding
Controlling or dominating by position
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  1. Controlling or dominating by position
  2. Having command; controlling.
  3. Impressively dominant.
haughty
Scornfully and condescendingly proud.
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  1. Scornfully and condescendingly proud.
  2. Having or showing great pride in oneself and disdain, contempt, or scorn for others; proud; arrogant; supercilious
  3. (Archaic) Lofty; noble
pressing
Very earnest or insistent:
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  1. Very earnest or insistent:
  2. Demanding immediate attention; urgent:
  3. Persistent in request or demand; insistent
critical
Including scholarly commentary and interpretation:
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  1. Including scholarly commentary and interpretation:
  2. Extremely important or essential:
  3. (Physics) Capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction:
imperative
(Gram.) Designating or of the mood of a verb that expresses a command, strong request, or exhortation
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  1. (Gram.) Designating or of the mood of a verb that expresses a command, strong request, or exhortation
  2. Necessary or urgent:
  3. Having the nature of, or indicating, power or authority; commanding
authoritarian
Tending to tell other people what to do in a peremptory or arrogant manner.
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  1. Tending to tell other people what to do in a peremptory or arrogant manner.
  2. Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom:
bossy
(Informal) Acting like a boss, as by ordering people about; domineering
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  1. (Informal) Acting like a boss, as by ordering people about; domineering
  2. Given to ordering others around; domineering.
  3. Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
dictatorial
Of or pertaining to a dictator
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  1. Of or pertaining to a dictator
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a dictator or dictatorship; autocratic.
  3. In the manner of a dictator, usually with callous disregard for others
dogmatic
Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
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  1. Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
  2. Asserting or insisting upon ideas or principles, especially when unproven or unexamined, in an imperious or arrogant manner:
  3. Characterized by such assertion, often with an unconsidered rejection of criticism:
domineering
Arrogant in asserting or attempting to assert one's will over others; overbearing.
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  1. Arrogant in asserting or attempting to assert one's will over others; overbearing.
  2. Arrogant; overbearing; tyrannical
  3. Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
magisterial
Sedately dignified in appearance or manner:
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  1. Sedately dignified in appearance or manner:
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a master or teacher; authoritative:
  3. Showing or having the skill or knowledge of a master; expert
masterful
Having or showing the ability of a master; expert; skillful; masterly
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  1. Having or showing the ability of a master; expert; skillful; masterly
  2. Acting or capable of acting as a master or leader, especially in being domineering or imperious:
  3. Having or showing the qualities of a master vis-a-vis a dependent or subordinate; authoritative; domineering.
overbearing
Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.
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  1. Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.
  2. Acting in a dictatorial manner; arrogant; domineering
  3. Overwhelming in power or significance; predominant:
peremptory
(Law) Barring further action, debate, question, etc.; final; absolute; decisive
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  1. (Law) Barring further action, debate, question, etc.; final; absolute; decisive
  2. That cannot be denied, changed, delayed, opposed, etc., as a command
  3. Subject to no further debate or dispute; final and unassailable:
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  • The imperious manner of Andros made him many enemies.

  • Though clever and good-looking, she was self-willed and imperious, and without the conciliatory manners which her difficult position required.

  • But three years later this imperious leader was checked by the heroic resistance of the " Maiden " fortress of Magdeburg; though two years later still she lost her reputation, and suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of Tilly's lawless and unlicensed soldiery.

  • able but imperious mother, Jeanne of Savoy-Nemours.

  • All that we know of Burke exhibits him as inspired by a resolute pride, a certain stateliness and imperious elevation of mind.

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