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Bullying   /bˈʊliɪŋ/   Listen
Bullying

noun
1.
The act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something.  Synonym: intimidation.
adjective
1.
Noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others.  Synonym: blustery.



Bully

verb
(past & past part. bullied; pres. part. bullying)
1.
Be bossy towards.  Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm.
2.
Discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate.  Synonyms: browbeat, swagger.



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"Bullying" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be out of a sinking ship," said the ex-boss. "The Works will go down, sure as shooting. And I think myself well out of the clutches of these men. They're a bullying, swearing, drinking set of infernal ruffians. Foremen are just as bad as hands. I never felt safe of my life ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various

... did not arise from Pilot, but from the yellow-haired woman's pertinacious demands for money from Mrs. Naylor. She had the offensive fluency that comes of long practice in alternate wheedling and bullying, and although Major Booth had given her a shilling she continued to pester Mrs. Pat for a further largesse. But, as it happened, Mrs. Pat's purse was in her covert coat in the dog-cart, and Mrs. Pat's temper was ever within easy reach, and on being too ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross

... literalness under their most ludicrous aspect, what can equal St. Luke's description of the riot at Ephesus? The picture of the narrow trade selfishness of Demetrius—of polytheism reduced into a matter of business—of the inanity of a mob tumult in an enslaved country—of the mixed coaxing and bullying of its officials, was surely never brought out with a more latter vice, indeed, includes both the others, or rather uses them as its instruments. Thus, the "pious Editor" proclaims, ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell

... dulling the municipal gas and giving to each loose stone on the macadam a long shadow. In the gloom behind the lamps the low form of an open automobile showed, and a dim, cloaked figure beside it. A boyish voice said with playful bullying sharpness, above the growling, irregular pulsation of the engine—"Here, grandad, you've ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett

... boasting of past services, denouncing rival contributors, declaring that a regard for the views of any other man was base subservience to a renegade Ministry, or foolish attention to the hints of understrappers; threatening, if he was neglected, to set up a rival Review, and generally hectoring, bullying, and declaiming in a manner which gives one the highest opinion of the diplomatic skill of the editor, who managed, without truckling, to avoid a breach with his tremendous contributor. Brougham, indeed, was not quite blind to the fact that the 'Review' ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen


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