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overentitled

overentitled adjective: feeling or acting as though one is entitled to more than one really is; overly demanding or grabby.

Adjective

overentitled (comparative more overentitled, superlative most overentitled)

  1. Feeling or acting as though one is entitled to more than one really is; overly demanding or grabby.
    • Of course, the issue would have been delivered to the shop, actually three of them, but they usually lost at least two to overentitled customers who ripped out pages or even stole entire issues.2014, Randy Susan Meyers, The Comfort of Lies, page 167

Forms of overentitled

comparativemore overentitled
superlativemost overentitled

Origin of overentitled

From over- + entitled.

Questions about overentitled

What does overentitled mean?
Overentitled means feeling or acting as though one is entitled to more than one really is; overly demanding or grabby.
What part of speech is overentitled?
Overentitled is an adjective.

Words near overentitled in the dictionary

  1. overentertained
  2. overenthusiasm
  3. overenthusiasms
  4. overenthusiastic
  5. overenthusiastically
  6. overentitled
  7. overentitlement
  8. overenunciate
  9. overenunciated
  10. overenunciates
  11. overenunciating

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