Usually means: Aggressive, intimidating, or domineering speech.
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  1. hectoring: Merriam-Webster
  2. hectoring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hectoring: Vocabulary.com
  4. hectoring: Wordnik
  5. hectoring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hectoring: Wiktionary
  7. Hectoring, hectoring: Dictionary.com
  8. Hectoring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Hectoring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. hectoring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. hectoring: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hectoring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hectoring: Legal dictionary

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  1. hectoring: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hectoring)

▸ adjective:  That hectors; intimidating or domineering.
▸ noun:  The act of one who hectors, or acts blusteringly.

Similar:
bullyrag, ballyrag, strong-arm, bully, browbeat, boss around, push around, harrisome, horripilating, honery, more...

Opposite:
encouraging, supporting, praising, complimenting

Types:
nagging, haranguing, badgering, pestering, importuning, vexing, more...

Adjectives:
constant, most, such, preposterous, less, political, moral, incessant, simple, everlasting, offensive

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Similar:
bullyrag, ballyrag, strong-arm, bully, browbeat, boss around, push around, harrisome, horripilating, honery, more...

Opposite:
encouraging, supporting, praising, complimenting

Types:
nagging, haranguing, badgering, pestering, importuning, vexing, more...

Adjectives:
constant, most, such, preposterous, less, political, moral, incessant, simple, everlasting, offensive



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