hectoring
Example Sentences
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A light touch works better than self-righteous hectoring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
More effective than a hectoring thread on social media is making something new, something funny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025
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
He forged a close relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, hectoring the FBI director to institute ever more intensive surveillance of Oppenheimer’s movements and telephone calls.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
