browbeat

Dodgers management didn’t browbeat Treinen and Call, and that’s fine — ballplayers should be entitled to share their personal thoughts, however noxious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

But when things started to get "really crazy", she browbeat her parents into coming with her.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

Musk used a lot of jargon to explain what he browbeat his staff into doing, but it's not hard to read between the lines.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023

They will believe you can browbeat an extremely well-lawyered public company into getting out of a deal that has no apparent legal out.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2022

I took Master Hemme’s hair from the student and recognized him as Basil, the boy Hemme had browbeat yesterday.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The actor was shown to no less domineering effect in The Great Santini, playing a frustrated Marine pilot who hectors and browbeats his teenage children.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

It begins with light comedy, as Joan outwits or browbeats squires, soldiers, courtiers and even an archbishop into letting her have her way.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018

Underwritten and a smidge too long, “Caught” is marred by an over-excited musical score that browbeats where it should tease.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

Brown browbeats them into playing what he’s got in mind, explaining that they should treat all of their instruments as drums, and suddenly the song comes together.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2014

But with that addition, he overcrows the town, browbeats their prejudices, and bullies them out of their senses, and is not afraid of being contradicted by any one less than himself.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt

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

As the tragedies accumulated midshow, I started to feel a little browbeaten by the cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

It was whispered in one browbeaten textile union that the mute was an organizer for the C.I.O.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

He named Quintero as his accomplice only after a browbeating from the authorities, who wanted to frame Quintero for a crime he didn’t commit, Trujillo told the jury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The question is whether the party now meekly succumbs to the browbeating:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

For him, in fact, the swagger and browbeating are often an integral part of the negotiating process.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

Still, he insists on browbeating others to support a cause as lost as, well, making fetch happen.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024

This divide-and-conquer strategy is better than repeatedly allowing counterexamples to intrude into the main line of an argument while browbeating readers into looking away.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker