domineering
Example Sentences
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In fact he is the opposite — a domineering strongman who seeks to bully everyone around him into compliance.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
The actor was shown to no less domineering effect in The Great Santini, playing a frustrated Marine pilot who hectors and browbeats his teenage children.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
But Roslyn Ruff, a talented actor who speaks the verse with commendable clarity, fails to imbue the character with the necessary domineering imperiousness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
At the time, the idea of crossing into the domineering English mainstream was often just a one-way deal, Times music columnist Agustin Gurza argued.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
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
Vocabulary lists containing domineering
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