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
Then you hector and bullyrag us on the stairs," said Stalky, "about matters that are your business entirely.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
Say," he grumbled, "what call has that big lobster to bullyrag this crowd the way he's been doin'?
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson
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
“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
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
Mother Seton fought priestly superiors who crossed her path, alternately teased and bullyragged her two sons.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1936 he had bullyragged 200,000 Twin Citizens into signing up.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah! that was the leader who had bullyragged him.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore
General Grigory Savonenkov, the Soviet minister, a bullyragging, bellowing, table-pounding type.
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
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
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
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