hectoring
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“Haughty, hectoring and pleased with herself, she is single-handedly wrecking her hen-pecked husband Gavin’s lofty political ambitions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Writer Emma Rosenblum says she’s bombarded daily with hectoring advice about bone density—like most of her female peers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
At David Geffen Hall on Wednesday, Gianandrea Noseda led the Philharmonic in a performance of the Fourth that sidestepped its intriguing, hectoring mystery and embraced the more conventional aspects of its Romanticism.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
No one in history has embodied the role of a fascist gym teacher more thoroughly than Jordan, a man whose only waking mode is "hectoring."
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2023
Homer rarely spoke apart from his hectoring of the horses.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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