hectoring

Example Sentences

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Hectoring came naturally to Kramer, whose wrath was in direct proportion to his capacity to care.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2020

Hectoring their rivals and lashing away at themselves, these people ride the edge of wearing you out.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2015

Hectoring Peyton Manning for not being able to “get it done” is easily as meaningless as declaring him “reigning champion of the everyday.”

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2014

Hectoring the locals in his sermons, her father – she hears – keeps telling them something different from what he means.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2013

They are completely cowed by the vulgar harassings of the press and of our Hectoring sciolists in Parliament.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson