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Hectoring Synonyms

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Be bossy towards
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. baiting
  2. nagging
  3. bullying
  4. riding
  5. heckling
  6. needling
  7. worrying
  8. bullyragging
  9. tormenting
  10. teasing
  11. swaggering
  12. browbeating
  13. taunting
  14. plaguing
  15. hounding
  16. irritating
  17. intimidating
  18. badgering
  19. harassing
  20. dominating
  21. blustering
  22. strong-arming
To domineer or drive into compliance by the use of as threats or force, for example
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. cowing
  2. strong-arming
  3. threatening
  4. menacing
  5. intimidating
  6. bullyragging
  7. bullying
  8. browbeating
  9. bludgeoning

Hectoring Sentence Examples

  • In its place, the voice has become chatty, and often loud, arrogant, and hectoring.

  • Tho her writing is never hectoring or overtly ideological, what she found left her deeply alarmed.

  • Further, in maintaining that the powers recognized by religion are always superior to man, he leaves unclassed a host of practices that display a bargaining, or even a hectoring, spirit on the part of those addressing them (see Prayer).

  • Baths, lunch-rooms, restrooms, clubs, lectures, schools and kindergartens have been supplied, and the company has also cultivated domestic pride by offering prizes for the best-kept gardens, &c. From April to July 1901 there was a strike in the already thoroughly unionized factories; complaint was made of the hectoring of union men by a certain foreman, the use in toilet-rooms of towels laundered in non-union shops (the company replied by allowing the men to supply towels themselves), the use on doors of springs not union-made (these were removed by the company), and especially the discharge of four men whom the company refused to reinstate.

Words near Hectoring in the Thesaurus

  • -hed
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  • Hector Hugh Munro
  • Hedera helix
  • hectare
  • hectic
  • hector
  • hectored
  • hectoring
  • hectors
  • hedge
  • hedge-bindweed
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