hectored
Example Sentences
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Eager to shock, he hectored refined Athenians in the market square.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
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
It falls to a fragile and hectored institution—the media—to keep this from happening.
From Slate • Oct. 19, 2020
He mocked Mr. Sessions’s Southern accent, hectored him on Twitter and belittled him in interviews — and only after all that did he fire him, days after the 2018 midterms.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2020
For four dispiriting years, he had hectored government officials to place the program on the fast track.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
