domineer

He could dominate and domineer musicians in a recording studio, once upon a time, but he couldn’t charm 12 people on a 2007 jury into believing his story.

From Time ● Mar. 21, 2013

It goes to the head like wine, and you find attempts made outside journalism to dictate, to domineer to blackmail.

From Time Magazine Archive

So could I imagine the condemned souls revel and domineer when a Prince of Darkness hath been reduced to a lower level.

From With Ring of Shield by Knox Magee

It does not domineer over the President himself, but it makes the Secretaries its humble servants.

From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

She's in love with being married, and having a country house of her own, and a husband to domineer over.

From Leonore Stubbs by L. B. Walford

"He is deemed happy in the market-place, But when he gets him home, thrice miserable, His wife rules all, quarrels, and domineers."

From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto

Death, indeed, domineers over everything but the forms of the Exchequer.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The picturesque, in short, domineers over English tragedy; the sculpturesque, or the statuesque, over the Grecian.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg

A pure idea, without a material hand or weapon, domineers over the greatest empire under the sun, in spite of the whole power of that empire armed to crush it.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

So our general, settled on his property of two thousand souls, lives in pomp, and domineers over his poor neighbors as though they were dependents and buffoons.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Detractors say he sometimes domineered those around him, allowed his temper to erupt and, according to another former official, “has an ego the size of the Empire State Building.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021

Irish-born actress Maureen O’Hara was one of the biggest stars in films of the 1940s and ’50s, an era when it was common for leading ladies to be domineered by male heroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2015

Many a U. S. newsorgan was snipped or censored in Cuba while "Tyrant" President Gerardo Machado domineered, but last week his more liberal successors found something which even they resolved to suppress.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the orphanage, in the Navy, in these last months of drifting, they had always subtly domineered over him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The French writers say, that before the interposition of the French Governor, the English Buccaneers took advantage of their numbers, and domineered in Tortuga.

From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

Yeong-hye is a young married woman in Seoul whose domineering husband prizes her for her unchallenging plainness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

The domineering Sarastro, an all-powerful priest, bellows spiritual profundities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

"He was just so domineering and you just couldn't talk back to him," she added.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

When they are away from their families — in different contexts — older siblings are no more likely to be domineering and younger siblings no more likely to be rebellious than anyone else.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell