domineer

He could dominate and domineer musicians in a recording studio, once upon a time, but he couldn’t charm 12 people on a 2007 jury into believing his story.

From Time ● Mar. 21, 2013

It goes to the head like wine, and you find attempts made outside journalism to dictate, to domineer to blackmail.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now she wants to give herself fine lady airs, and to domineer over us!

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

He hated the domination of others, but was prone to domineer himself.

From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

Overbear′ing, inclined to domineer, esp. in manner or conduct: haughty and dogmatical: imperious.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

From this scene he had learned an alarming lesson: that the flesh domineers the soul and refuses to admit any schism.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

He domineers over freshmen when they first come to the hatch, and puzzles them with strange language of cues and cees, and some broken Latin which he has learnt at his bin.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

There are three whose life is no life:— He who lives at another's table; He whose wife domineers over him; And he who suffers bodily affliction.

From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

But I have omitted to speak of a very prominent character, the Pardoner, the Age’s Knave, who always commands and domineers over the high and low vulgar.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones

There are three whose life is no life:—He who lives at another's table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

Detractors say he sometimes domineered those around him, allowed his temper to erupt and, according to another former official, “has an ego the size of the Empire State Building.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021

Irish-born actress Maureen O’Hara was one of the biggest stars in films of the 1940s and ’50s, an era when it was common for leading ladies to be domineered by male heroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2015

In the orphanage, in the Navy, in these last months of drifting, they had always subtly domineered over him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many a U. S. newsorgan was snipped or censored in Cuba while "Tyrant" President Gerardo Machado domineered, but last week his more liberal successors found something which even they resolved to suppress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Could this be Kitty, his Kitty; to whom his thoughts had turned as to a half-grown, playful child, and over whom he had domineered with the masterful pride of boyhood?

From The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond

In their book "Regime Change," New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan said Miller was a domineering boss who regularly berated staff members.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

“Yes, I may have come across as domineering to keep people focused,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“He’s aware of his position in the world. He lives by himself and he’s gay and he’s been unhappy in love. He’s inquisitive and he’s domineering — I can sort of relate to that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

In fact he is the opposite — a domineering strongman who seeks to bully everyone around him into compliance.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

Someone less original than Clara would have tired of her sister-in-law’s excessive pampering and constant worry, or have succumbed to her domineering and meticulous nature.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende