- present participle of browbeat.
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
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
His browbeating got so bad that Judge Lewis Kaplan was forced to repeatedly interrupt and reprimand Tacopino.
From Salon ● May 1, 2023
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
