hectoring
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The latest offering, a campus action film titled “Run Hide Fight: Infidels,” delivers on the hectoring and little else.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
“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
A light touch works better than self-righteous hectoring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 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
Then Comrade Pillai, in a hectoring voice, quoted Chairman Mao.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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