Browbeaten

Word BROWBEATEN
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Definitions and meanings of "Browbeaten"

What do we mean by browbeaten?

To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.

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The word "browbeaten" in example sentences

When are we going break the news to blacks, Hispanics, women, and other so called browbeaten people, if you want it go after it don't wait until some steps aside for you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a result, I came away with greater insight and pleasantly didn't feel browbeaten by three group shows at two Chicago museums, that have already opened. ❋ Paul Klein (2011)

After all, the Obama administration surely did not want to be browbeaten as anti-faith by phony martyrs and their false claims of religious discrimination. ❋ Wayne Besen (2011)

Masterji is the only resident holding out, simply because he sees no reason to exchange the old for the new, and hates being browbeaten or manipulated. ❋ Chandrahas Choudhury (2011)

Regulators are "not about to be browbeaten into doing something just because a group of congressmen threaten them," Mr. Dodd said. ❋ Jean Eaglesham (2010)

Dudley, who spent childhood summers swimming and fishing in the gulf, replaced browbeaten Tony Hayward in the top job at BP at the beginning of October. ❋ Andrew Clark (2010)

The corporate movie and music industries thought they were home free having browbeaten the timid Swedish authorities into passing IPRED anti-piracy legislation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The answer is a little perverse: Precisely because of the lack of statutory baselines, Eleanor Holmes Norton has browbeaten Clark more than D.C. mayors typically cajole those contractors whose projects are actually paid for with local cash. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What Cooke offers thereafter is an extended urban nightmare: one in which Lenny Henry's Syracusan Antipholus and Lucian Msamati as his browbeaten servant find themselves bewilderingly mistaken for their Ephesian twins. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Department for Business, which does have some interesting ideas for how to promote innovation, is browbeaten by the wider politics into making it a priority to take the "burden" off business, allegedly to stimulate growth. ❋ Unknown (2011)

That meant not bowing to political pressure in appointing a distributor or giving a contract to a bottler or a distiller--Uberoi would never allow himself to be browbeaten. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It suggests to me that the American people, after a quarter-century of being browbeaten and tormented by cruel, conscience-less wedding DJs, are finally fighting back. ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)

Even if an Irish government were to be browbeaten into agreeing to surrender tax sovereignty, the chances of any change winning public endorsement in a referendum—and such a treaty change would indeed trigger a referendum—would be lower than the odds of a snowball surviving in hell. ❋ Dick Roche (2011)

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