Overbearing

a.	1.	Overpowering; subduing; repressing.
	2.	Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent.

Adj.

1.

overbearing - expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" Synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial

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