domineering
inclined to rule arbitrarily or despotically; overbearing; tyrannical: domineering parents.
Origin of domineering
1Other words for domineering
Other words from domineering
- dom·i·neer·ing·ly, adverb
- dom·i·neer·ing·ness, noun
- non·dom·i·neer·ing, adjective
- su·per·dom·i·neer·ing, adjective
- un·dom·i·neer·ing, adjective
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How to use domineering in a sentence
So, if resources are hard to defend, that guards against domineering inequality.
The Math That Says Egalitarianism Is Possible - Issue 104: Harmony | Brian Gallagher | August 11, 2021 | NautilusFor so many seasons, the loudest, most domineering chefs always seemed to run the kitchen with an iron fist during Restaurant Wars.
Top Chef: Portland Was the Kindest Season Yet. Does the Finale Change That? | Elijah Wolfson | July 2, 2021 | TimeElizabeth, a housewife and mother of six, had simply stood up to her domineering husband.
Declared Insane for Speaking Up: The Dark American History of Silencing Women Through Psychiatry | Kate Moore | June 22, 2021 | TimeBoth stereotypes of her as either a dutiful or domineering wife failed to see how she had struggled all her life to forge her own identity as a wife and mother but above all as herself, Ethel.
How Today’s World Can Help Us See That There’s More to the Ethel Rosenberg Story | Anne Sebba | June 9, 2021 | TimeTheir next ruse becomes fabricating a resume that gets Estella hired at a department store and, eventually, legitimate work for the domineering designer Baroness, who is impressed by her keen eye.
Counterpoint: Disney’s Girlboss ‘Cruella’ Actually Rules | Kevin Fallon | May 28, 2021 | The Daily Beast
Allison and Cole have lost a child, his family is shady, and his mother domineering.
How Will They End ‘The Affair’? Showtime’s Adultery Drama Defies Predictability | Tim Teeman | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe family shared housing with the ever present and domineering Sara, who rarely had a kind word for her daughter-in-law.
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He refused to budge, and Anne retreated further from public view squashed by his bullying and domineering manner.
Norm is a symbol of implacable corporate power—preening, surgically perfected, casually domineering.
His eyes had retreated deeper into the sockets, and his thick lips, once so firm and domineering, were loose and flabby.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterThe next moment his arms had snatched her up and she was looking up into his steady domineering eyes.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonOnly an abiding sense of humour kept him sometimes from being domineering.
From Place to Place | Irvin S. CobbI gave you credit for domineering and prejudice, now I see it is malignity.'
The Heir of Redclyffe | Charlotte M. YongeThe other, a middle-aged, domineering man with a powerful face, looked angrily at me as I handed him my dispatch.
The Yeoman Adventurer | George W. Gough
British Dictionary definitions for domineering
/ (ˌdɒmɪˈnɪərɪŋ) /
acting with or showing arrogance or tyranny; imperious
Derived forms of domineering
- domineeringly, adverb
- domineeringness, noun
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