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"I have been quite bossy making sure everyone is doing their part, and at the right time," said Emma.

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He said he had a "bossy sister, who taught me right from wrong" and loved playing cricket.

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Their parents, too, are likable, loving, hard-working people, a little bossy now and then, but genuinely concerned for their children.

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It gets hearty laughs by flattening Russell’s Walker — a tragic Afghanistan veteran confused by the government’s inconsistency about when he’s allowed to kill — into a spoof of bossy, paternalistic privilege.

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"Well, I don't call her my manager. Everybody else calls her my manager, because she's bossy. She's a little Capricorn like me. So we have that bond."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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