bullyrag
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Another leading citizen d'gs into the commodore's naval record, finds it a sorry mess, and tries to bullyrag the old boy out of town.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Wot d’yer mean by comin’ the barney over me and a-makin’ that codger of a kinstructor bullyrag me afore all the t’other chaps fur?”
From Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy by John B. Greene
I tried to bullyrag him into keeping on, but it was no go.
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine
He was a born boss, and loved to command, and to jaw and dispute with inferiors and harry them and bullyrag them.
From Following the Equator, Part 6 by Mark Twain
Do you remember how you used to bullyrag me about my coat and your bridge?
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
The world pleaded, cajoled and bullyragged Nintendo into putting Mario on smartphones.
From Time ● Dec. 15, 2016
For his effrontery, Lindsay was exiled to the dismal Chicago Blackhawks in 1957, and thereafter bullyragged into early retirement.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015
The automobile industry needed to be bullyragged into a code because its members had been tied up in knots for weeks on the labor question.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mother Seton fought priestly superiors who crossed her path, alternately teased and bullyragged her two sons.
From Time Magazine Archive
I never heard of his fightin' anybody but his own kind, and when he was bullyragged.
From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Bret Harte
On the eve of the Washington talks, the bullyragging and the bitter recriminations that had passed between the U.S. and Britain faded into an abashed mumble-grumble.
From Time Magazine Archive
In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where General Johnson's bullyragging and President Roosevelt's patriotic pleas had failed, 30,000 determined coal miners in Pennsylvania scored a major success for NRA last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bullyragging sophomore coxswain I came to know very well in later years, and found him as courteous and good-hearted as 105 any man.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
