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- verb Alternative spelling of
browbeat .
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Examples
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Now the Anglo-Saxon is so constituted that to brow-beat or bully him is the last way under the sun of getting him to do any certain thing.
In Yeddo Bay 2010
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You have all the skill, tact and charm of a 16 year old boy trying to brow-beat his girlfriend into putting out. joe from Lowell says:
Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Plan Getting More Popular 2010
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I challenge any Welsh Labour politicians to defend and support these proposals to brow-beat the unemployed.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Having been to one of their ‘HSC Hype’ study camps for Year 12 students, where they tried to brow-beat kids into becoming born again and stories about exorcism were de rigour – I have no doubts these stories are quite true.
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And Conservatives should roundly expose these slogans as Neo-Con Propaganda which, by design, they virulently employ at every turn not only to brow-beat the Left (impossibly), but expressly to shame Conservatives into to continuing to go along for the ride.
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Because when you started appointing bigots, racists, and religious fanatics to key positions, when you brow-beat the GG, you went beyond politics.
When the writ gets dropped... Boris 2009
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Does anyone else feel that Her Royale Crownship has brow-beat her man into helping AND his heart ain't in it?
Bush 41 Shoots Down Bill's Idea Of Involving Him In Hillary Diplomacy 2009
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Because when you started appointing bigots, racists, and religious fanatics to key positions, when you brow-beat the GG, you went beyond politics.
Archive 2009-09-01 West End Bob 2009
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It feels like they were just looking for politicians to brow-beat Iran.
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I love how she brow-beat that young woman into submission.
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