browbeating

Example Sentences

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The question is whether the party now meekly succumbs to the browbeating:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

For him, in fact, the swagger and browbeating are often an integral part of the negotiating process.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025

Still, he insists on browbeating others to support a cause as lost as, well, making fetch happen.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024

But the choice is not between either taking at face value everything executives say, or browbeating them at every opportunity.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022

He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee