overbearing
Overbearing means domineering. You might find it difficult to play the piano as your overbearing instructor criticizes every key you touch.
The adjective overbearing typically describes a person who is haughty and dictatorial. Someone considered to be overbearing or arrogant wouldn't be described as kind or modest, which are antonyms of overbearing. Overbearing also means “repressing or overwhelming.” Thomas Jefferson uses this definition in his decree, “If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism.”
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having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthysynonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lofty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggeringproudfeeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
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expecting unquestioning obedience“insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter”synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorialdomineeringtending to domineer
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Following the Constitutional Convention in 1787, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay published a series of essays supporting the new Constitution. Together these essays are called The Federalist Papers. Federalist No. 10 by Madison is considered one of the most important political documents in U.S. history. Madison discusses political factions, which in today's language might be called political parties. The essay was first published in newspapers under the pen name "Publius." Read the full text here.