hectored

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Usually, the one reaching out for help is the sibling tasked with holding power of attorney or serving as executor of an estate, and who is being hectored by a troublesome sibling.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

Eager to shock, he hectored refined Athenians in the market square.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

“To be hectored and condemned; to be told that they were wholly wrong” was for Lincoln “a path not to reform but to intransigence,” Meacham writes.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022

He is hectored about his life choices by “Nicky,” an uncanny valley version of himself who exemplifies all Cage’s famously quirky excesses, particularly his penchant for screaming a lot.

From The Verge • Mar. 15, 2022

After Beidleman and the others had set out from the huddle to get help, Madsen had gathered together the climbers who remained and hectored everybody to keep moving in order to stay warm.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer