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Activity in a hostile crowd
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hectoring
Word definitions for hectoring in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
That hectors; intimidating or domineering. n. The act of one who hectors, or acts blusteringly. v (present participle of hector English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hector \Hec"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hectored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hectoring .] To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying. --Dryden.
Usage examples of hectoring.
Without the second and third steps—the part where Republicans start hectoring the populace that gays “are evil and therefore can be destroyed”—the first “step” doesn’t amount to much.
Police spinners drew distant, slow-motion traces of light, while the hectoring U.
Without the second and third steps—the part where Republicans start hectoring the populace that gays "are evil and therefore can be destroyed"—the first "step" doesn't amount to much.
If the universal experience of liberal hectoring was not so unpleasant, Americans might not have turned to the Samizdat media with such zeal.
But it should not be surprising that when given a choice, people don't want liberal hectoring being piped into their homes and cars.
She had been talking about it in a mixed crowd and reported that the boys began hectoring the girls - C'mon, Ms is the twentieth century.
I wish Humbug had been among them: such pompous hectoring tautologous semi-literate stuff .
I wish Humbug had been among them: such pompous hectoring tautologous semi-literate stuff.
And I thought, moreover, that at the day of doom, we shall not be doomed to death or life according to the hectoring spirits of the world, but according to the wisdom and law of the Highest.
Laura came in for some of this hectoring too, although she had not yet reached the age for it.
She made me a hot-water bottle and some tea, and the doctor was summoned, and both of them fussed around, giving out a stream of helpful advice and hearty, hectoring tut-tuts, and mightily pleased with themselves.