bully

Example Sentences

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His motives are obvious: He’s a bully and it’s fun for him to watch people debase themselves to please him.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

In fact he is the opposite — a domineering strongman who seeks to bully everyone around him into compliance.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

The found that a brand could risk seeming like a bully if it appropriated a comment from someone who seems vulnerable, like an elderly person.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, a public interest communications attorney, said Carr is using his bully pulpit at the FCC to intimidate “a timorous broadcasting industry.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

He was sick of sitting here listening to Mr. Reardon bully his family with all these “hypotheticals,” all these simpers and smirks, cruel smiles and humorless laughs.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix