browbeat

Dodgers management didn’t browbeat Treinen and Call, and that’s fine — ballplayers should be entitled to share their personal thoughts, however noxious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

But when things started to get "really crazy", she browbeat her parents into coming with her.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

They will believe you can browbeat an extremely well-lawyered public company into getting out of a deal that has no apparent legal out.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2022

"We've got to stop the coercion. We've got to stop trying to browbeat people."

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2021

“I hope you don’t think we’re gonna browbeat our students to please you’all,” she said.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

The actor was shown to no less domineering effect in The Great Santini, playing a frustrated Marine pilot who hectors and browbeats his teenage children.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

It begins with light comedy, as Joan outwits or browbeats squires, soldiers, courtiers and even an archbishop into letting her have her way.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018

Brown browbeats them into playing what he’s got in mind, explaining that they should treat all of their instruments as drums, and suddenly the song comes together.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2014

In a stream of phone calls, he browbeats immigration officials, jawbones local reporters about the case and communes via video with Mr. Nabeel.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2011

Money bellows," retorted Scarborough, "and bribes and browbeats, bully and coward that it is.

From The Cost by Phillips, David Graham

Maybe, they’ll need to hope, he will get bored enough in retirement to consider it, or maybe he can be browbeaten into feeling the insatiable itch of public service.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024

But the truth is they had to be browbeaten into leading that revolution.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

In an age when batters are browbeaten with launch angles aimed to produce longballs, the Guardians are an anomaly.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

"I don't expect you will be browbeaten by No 10 to do radical or strange new policies," he told them, but he added there was "no excuse to take your foot off the pedal".

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2022

For once she was not going to be browbeaten.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

He named Quintero as his accomplice only after a browbeating from the authorities, who wanted to frame Quintero for a crime he didn’t commit, Trujillo told the jury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The question is whether the party now meekly succumbs to the browbeating:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

For him, in fact, the swagger and browbeating are often an integral part of the negotiating process.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

“I don’t want to keep browbeating that one situation,” Palmer said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022

He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee