- present participle of browbeat.
browbeating
Example Sentences
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Several European officials said the leaders’ meeting went better than expected—a sign of both relief and diminished expectations after 18 months of browbeating from Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
For him, in fact, the swagger and browbeating are often an integral part of the negotiating process.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
He’d rather sleep late than wake up before dawn for a grueling day of fixing cars under his brother’s browbeating supervision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
His browbeating got so bad that Judge Lewis Kaplan was forced to repeatedly interrupt and reprimand Tacopino.
From Salon ● May 1, 2023
He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
