bullyrag
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Another leading citizen d'gs into the commodore's naval record, finds it a sorry mess, and tries to bullyrag the old boy out of town.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then you hector and bullyrag us on the stairs," said Stalky, "about matters that are your business entirely.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
And if you can’t lift it, then leave it for another trip, and bullyrag those skinflints at H. M. & Co.’s to send a man down to help you.
From Gold by Stewart Edward White
“Wot d’yer mean by comin’ the barney over me and a-makin’ that codger of a kinstructor bullyrag me afore all the t’other chaps fur?”
From Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy by John B. Greene
He was a born boss, and loved to command, and to jaw and dispute with inferiors and harry them and bullyrag them.
From Following the Equator, Part 6 by Mark Twain
The world pleaded, cajoled and bullyragged Nintendo into putting Mario on smartphones.
From Time ● Dec. 15, 2016
For his effrontery, Lindsay was exiled to the dismal Chicago Blackhawks in 1957, and thereafter bullyragged into early retirement.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015
The automobile industry needed to be bullyragged into a code because its members had been tied up in knots for weeks on the labor question.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mother Seton fought priestly superiors who crossed her path, alternately teased and bullyragged her two sons.
From Time Magazine Archive
He blustered and bullyragged; he had been their boss and he had been fired without cause, he insisted.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
Where General Johnson's bullyragging and President Roosevelt's patriotic pleas had failed, 30,000 determined coal miners in Pennsylvania scored a major success for NRA last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the eve of the Washington talks, the bullyragging and the bitter recriminations that had passed between the U.S. and Britain faded into an abashed mumble-grumble.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sample causes: crusades against Governors, mudslinging matches with Senators, bullyragging attacks on advertisers, lavish parties for children, sick dogs and horses.
From Time Magazine Archive
He tried ridicule; and when that didn't stop the crazy happenings, he took to bullyragging.
From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde
