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
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
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
“By bullying and browbeating anybody who tries to stop you. Chaplain, get me my uniform! It’s around this hospital somewhere. For once in your life, succeed at something.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
