browbeaten

"I was so browbeaten after everything with my father, he was dying by the time they'd approached me, and I just wanted to pay them, keep them off my back, and I needed to get on with my life," she said.

Polls show that while young men might be backing Trump in large numbers, young women have not been browbeaten out of voting for Democrats.

Maybe, they’ll need to hope, he will get bored enough in retirement to consider it, or maybe he can be browbeaten into feeling the insatiable itch of public service.

“I think a lot of Democrats, who feel browbeaten all the time, are going to have watch parties with really good flavored popcorn and wine and say, you know, ‘Give him hell.’”

The protagonist is a Los Angeles housewife who discovers on a trip to England that her husband is a cheat and that her life is in danger, a realization that transforms the “browbeaten housewife” into an enterprising private detective.