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

I was in no position to browbeat her for it.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2024

But blunt rhetoric is often used only to browbeat others and distort facts.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023

I took Master Hemme’s hair from the student and recognized him as Basil, the boy Hemme had browbeat yesterday.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Underwritten and a smidge too long, “Caught” is marred by an over-excited musical score that browbeats where it should tease.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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

But with that addition, he overcrows the town, browbeats their prejudices, and bullies them out of their senses, and is not afraid of being contradicted by any one less than himself.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt

And when enough people feel shamed into silence and emotionally browbeaten into shutting down, things boil over.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025

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

From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

"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

Among the adversaries that Musk has browbeaten, count the board of Twitter.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022

It was whispered in one browbeaten textile union that the mute was an organizer for the C.I.O.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Several European officials said the leaders’ meeting went better than expected—a sign of both relief and diminished expectations after 18 months of browbeating from Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

Still, he insists on browbeating others to support a cause as lost as, well, making fetch happen.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024

He’d rather sleep late than wake up before dawn for a grueling day of fixing cars under his brother’s browbeating supervision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024

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