hectoring

Example Sentences

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A light touch works better than self-righteous hectoring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Greene took a kitchen-sink approach to her hectoring.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

No one in history has embodied the role of a fascist gym teacher more thoroughly than Jordan, a man whose only waking mode is "hectoring."

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2023

Biden will bring up concerns about press freedoms, religious freedoms and other issues in a respectful way without "hectoring, lecturing or scolding," one U.S. official who briefed reporters said.

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2023

He forged a close relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, hectoring the FBI director to institute ever more intensive surveillance of Oppenheimer’s movements and telephone calls.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik