bullyrag
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Another leading citizen d'gs into the commodore's naval record, finds it a sorry mess, and tries to bullyrag the old boy out of town.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the first things a detective has to do is to surprise his man, and then immediately begin to bullyrag and overbear him; pretend that all is known, that the game is up.
From The Voice in the Fog by Harold MacGrath
Do you remember how you used to bullyrag me about my coat and your bridge?
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
Then we watched them go and bullyrag Jake; because we was pretty uneasy for him.
From Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
Dared you break the crust and bullyrag 'em—hot, fierce and angry, what wide beaks buzz plain Saxon as ever spoke Witenagemot!
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
The world pleaded, cajoled and bullyragged Nintendo into putting Mario on smartphones.
From Time ● Dec. 15, 2016
For his effrontery, Lindsay was exiled to the dismal Chicago Blackhawks in 1957, and thereafter bullyragged into early retirement.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015
Mother Seton fought priestly superiors who crossed her path, alternately teased and bullyragged her two sons.
From Time Magazine Archive
The automobile industry needed to be bullyragged into a code because its members had been tied up in knots for weeks on the labor question.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, the skipper, coming away from the place himself, and he bullyragged me for being there and sent me on deck.
From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison
Where General Johnson's bullyragging and President Roosevelt's patriotic pleas had failed, 30,000 determined coal miners in Pennsylvania scored a major success for NRA last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the eve of the Washington talks, the bullyragging and the bitter recriminations that had passed between the U.S. and Britain faded into an abashed mumble-grumble.
From Time Magazine Archive
In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pastime of bullyragging the pitcher by the coachers has lost its popularity recently.
From Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside by Christy Mathewson
