browbeaten

Example Sentences

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Audiences who endured the Miramax era have been browbeaten to believe that the best picture Oscar should go to a period piece that chokes out a sob from audiences.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

And when enough people feel shamed into silence and emotionally browbeaten into shutting down, things boil over.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2025

But the truth is they had to be browbeaten into leading that revolution.

From Washington Times • Feb. 16, 2023

In an age when batters are browbeaten with launch angles aimed to produce longballs, the Guardians are an anomaly.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2022

He had been browbeaten and humiliated successively that morning by Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and Corporal Whitcomb.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller