browbeat

Jeers to airlines who browbeat passengers into checking their carry-on bags at the gate, with agents threatening a possible delayed departure if enough travelers don’t give up their bags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023

“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

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

She browbeats her guest into giving her an estimate of the painting’s value — that is, if it is authentic.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011

He never browbeats any one, and never toadies any one.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope

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

As the tragedies accumulated midshow, I started to feel a little browbeaten by the cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

For once she was not going to be browbeaten.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

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

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

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024

Representatives for the writers described it as a “lecture” and a browbeating session in which they were pressured to accept an Aug. 11 proposal from the AMPTP.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

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