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- verb Present participle of
brow-beat .
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Examples
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A personal style that Sidney residents say leans heavily on insulting, humiliating, and brow-beating associates;
Andrew Reinbach: Small Town Islamophobia: Sidney, NY Town Supervisor Refuses to Apologize to Muslims, Ignites Firestorm Andrew Reinbach 2010
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A personal style that Sidney residents say leans heavily on insulting, humiliating, and brow-beating associates;
Andrew Reinbach: Small Town Islamophobia: Sidney, NY Town Supervisor Refuses to Apologize to Muslims, Ignites Firestorm Andrew Reinbach 2010
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When the hell did you start getting Jezebel level comments of serious conceptual thought and brow-beating?
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A personal style that Sidney residents say leans heavily on insulting, humiliating, and brow-beating associates;
Andrew Reinbach: Small Town Islamophobia: Sidney, NY Town Supervisor Refuses to Apologize to Muslims, Ignites Firestorm Andrew Reinbach 2010
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If only you could read the transcripts of the brow-beating, bullying, and all-around DELIBERATE MISREPRESENTATION OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH that goes on at hearings.
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Jean-Claude Trichet, Mr. Draghi's predecessor, made this concession amid earlier rounds of political brow-beating.
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It's just this toughness in the face of constant brow-beating and mud-slinging that may, in fact, be the real "experience" she has gleaned from being at the center of the first Clinton White House for so many years.
Glynnis MacNicol: Super Tuesday: When The Only Options Are Good Ones Glynnis MacNicol 2010
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The image of Emanuel that the media loves to gild -- the ruthless, foul-mouthed insider raising millions, whispering into the ears of powerful friends, brow-beating cringing underlings and anyone unfortunate enough to get in his way -- is even more common now than it was then.
Chicago, get ready for Rahm Emanuel's charm offensive Neil Steinberg 2010
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I have no doubt that come September, or at the latest October, we'll be in a lather like everyone else, fretting over SAT, or in Gracie's case ACT, scores, making her brag sheet sing and brow-beating her into believing that her destiny hinges on raising her French grade to an A- from a B+.
The College Conquerer Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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A personal style that Sidney residents say leans heavily on insulting, humiliating, and brow-beating associates;
Andrew Reinbach: Small Town Islamophobia: Sidney, NY Town Supervisor Refuses to Apologize to Muslims, Ignites Firestorm Andrew Reinbach 2010
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