browbeating

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

She often used a combination of charm and intense browbeating to convince the most reluctant members of the community to speak out in print or on TV.

From BBC • May 18, 2024

Her enduring image is that of a pleasant church lady, not of a soldier, a table-pounding tyrant or a browbeating aristocrat.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2022

Threats and public reproach appeal to the punitive impulse in American culture, but psychological research shows browbeating can backfire, causing the shamed person to dig in their heels and double down on their destructive behavior.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2021

This divide-and-conquer strategy is better than repeatedly allowing counterexamples to intrude into the main line of an argument while browbeating readers into looking away.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker