browbeating
Example Sentences
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The question is whether the party now meekly succumbs to the browbeating:
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
For him, in fact, the swagger and browbeating are often an integral part of the negotiating process.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025
Still, he insists on browbeating others to support a cause as lost as, well, making fetch happen.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024
“I don’t want to keep browbeating that one situation,” Palmer said.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
This divide-and-conquer strategy is better than repeatedly allowing counterexamples to intrude into the main line of an argument while browbeating readers into looking away.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
