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
“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
And when she started to bullyrag you, it was all I could do—But it won't last long now.
From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Then you hector and bullyrag us on the stairs," said Stalky, "about matters that are your business entirely.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
I tried to bullyrag him into keeping on, but it was no go.
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine
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
It ain't no use my taking her now," explained the mother, "I'll only get bullyragged for disturbing 'em.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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
In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
General Grigory Savonenkov, the Soviet minister, a bullyragging, bellowing, table-pounding type.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's no use bullyragging them; understanding their difficulties is much better.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 14, 1917 by Sir Owen Seaman
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