browbeating
- present participle of browbeat.
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
Representatives for the writers described it as a “lecture” and a browbeating session in which they were pressured to accept an Aug. 11 proposal from the AMPTP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
His browbeating got so bad that Judge Lewis Kaplan was forced to repeatedly interrupt and reprimand Tacopino.
From Salon ● May 1, 2023
He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
