Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who browbeats; a bully.
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Examples
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Collins seems to be settling into the role of Collins the jester, the anti-Glück, the establishment browbeater, in the gentlest of ways, of course.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Collins seems to be settling into the role of Collins the jester, the anti-Glück, the establishment browbeater, in the gentlest of ways, of course.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Give the people a break and fix the government first then you might have the right to go after other companies. browbeater
Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive' 2010
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But his record shows he's anything but an inflexible browbeater, and there's a fine line between not standing for something and standing for nothing.
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A harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying."
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In a platoon of hard-nosed execs, few have a snout quite as strong as Irish budget carrier Ryanair's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary: a harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying."
U.K. Faces Of The Week, May 15-19, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006
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Ramsay is the browbeater on Fox's reality series "Hell's Kitchen," unleashing torrents of F-bombs on his fragile flock of quivering culinary contestants.
The Seattle Times 2009
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Ramsay is the browbeater on Fox's reality series "Hell's Kitchen," unleashing torrents of F-bombs on his fragile flock of quivering culinary contestants.
The Seattle Times 2009
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