hectoring in English

verb

1

talk to (someone) in a bullying way.

she doesn't hector us about giving up things

synonyms: bully, intimidate, browbeat, harass, torment, plague, coerce, strong-arm, threaten, menace, bulldoze

verb

• bully, intimidate, browbeat, harass, torment, plague, coerce, strong-arm, threaten, menace, bulldoze
• ballyrag, push around, bullyrag, boss around, strong-arm, bully, browbeat

Use "hectoring" in a sentence

1. 28 synonyms for Bossy: domineering, lordly, arrogant, authoritarian, oppressive, hectoring, autocratic

2. Synonyms for Barracking include verbal, abuse, cursing, hectoring, jeering, rebuke, reproval, scolding, teasing and upbraiding

3. Synonyms for Browbeating include bulldozing, bullying, cowing, hectoring, intimidating, badgering, coercing, domineering, dragooning and oppressing

4. And then Georg had closed in on her, a grumpier, more disapproving, hectoring Georg.

5. Synonyms for Bogarting include blackjacking, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, bullyragging, cowing, hectoring, intimidating, mau-mauing and strong-arming

6. 23 He had entered the police station in a storm of self-righteous protest and had been by turn hectoring, belligerent and spiteful.

7. He had entered the police station in a storm of self-righteous protest and had been by turn hectoring, belligerent and spiteful.

8. Adjective (Informal) domineering, lordly, arrogant, authoritarian, oppressive, hectoring, autocratic, dictatorial, coercive, imperious, overbearing, tyrannical, despotic, high-handed She remembers being a rather Bossy little girl.

9. 10 t-Andre-Est (Que) Attendress, sand tester lOt-Augustin (Que) situtungas 10 St-Eustache (Que) cathetu es 10 Tilsonburg (Ont) troublings 9 Armstrong (Alb) Granstrom, strongarm 9 Caledonia (Ont) Candelaio, Laodicean 9 Creighton (Sask) hectoring tochering, trichogen 9 Deep River (Ont) prederive, redeprive, reprieved