domineering
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Through it all, however, West struggled with depression and a sense of self-loathing, and had trouble with intimacy, much of it a by-product of a hardscrabble childhood in West Virginia with a domineering father.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
"He was just so domineering and you just couldn't talk back to him," she added.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
Helen, the oldest sibling, is a domineering homemaker who has appointed herself keeper of the family recipes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
In a profile of Shapiro for The Atlantic, Alberta said the governor “moved between outrage and exasperation” as Alberta shared Harris’ characterizations of Shapiro as overconfident and domineering.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025
In 1912, at nineteen, he’d packed a bag, like Huck Finn lighting out for the Territory, and gone to live with his uncle, a domineering cattleman named William K. Hale, in Fairfax.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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