bossing around

Most of his characters may be undemocratic, but he shows no interest in bossing around his viewers.

Too many other countries, especially the United States, got involved with money, guns, and bossing around.

Saint Sarah takes over immediately, assessing the team, pondering our combined brain capabilities, assigning responsibilities—in general, doing what she does best: bossing around the rest of us.

For centuries, Europe kept tearing itself apart, then putting itself together again, but all the while exploiting, colonising and bossing around other parts of the world.

If our children become accustomed to bossing around their mechanical menials without so much as a please or a thank you, will they turn into adults we can’t stand?