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Meaning of overaggressiveness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Excessive aggression.

uncountable

Examples

“McGraw has been more abused than any other manager in baseball. In his early days, when a member of the Baltimore team, McGraw was far from being the quietest member of the club. He had arguments without number, and when he took up the duty of managing the Giants he carried with him the reputation for overaggressiveness, in fact, a mania for trouble making.”
“It remains for the traffic man to steer a course between the rocks of overaggressiveness on the one hand and lack of legitimate aggressiveness on the other.”
“The partygoers, in turn, blamed the police for overaggressiveness.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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