Crossword-Solution: BROWBEATING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Browbeating | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Browbeat |
| Browbeating | n. | The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “BROWBEATING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Blustery bullying | 1 answer |
| BLACKMAILING | 10 answers |
| terrorising | 12 answers |
| Scaring | 16 answers |
| Intimidating | 29 answers |
| Bullying | 31 answers |
| suasion | 45 answers |
| intimidation | 59 answers |
| Fright | 61 answers |
| Dread | 61 answers |
| extortion | 67 answers |
| persuasion | 67 answers |
| FEAR_ | 67 answers |
| Coercion | 70 answers |
| Threat | 70 answers |
| Frightening | 70 answers |
| striking | 77 answers |
| Impressive | 89 answers |
| Moving | 92 answers |
| AWESOME | 99 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BROWBEATING (5)
Smith; I can get along better by myself” It was Elfride’s first fragile attempt at browbeating a lover.
Browbeating.] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.
For the hard energy of the man in all public matters has possessed the imagination of the world; he remains for posterity in certain traditional phrases, browbeating Queen Mary, or breaking beautiful carved work in abbeys and cathedrals, that had long smoked themselves out and were no more than sorry ruins, while he was still quietly teaching children in a country gentleman’s family.
These two women should not have the satisfaction of calling her a crude, ignorant, country girl; and Robert Grant Burns should not have the triumph of browbeating her into yielding one inch of ground.
Chicanery, falsehood, browbeating, hold a well-secured place in the method of procedure of any athletic contest and in games generally.
Quotes with BROWBEATING (3)
After finishing my breakfast, I puttered around for the next hour and tried not to think about Daniel. I glared at the chair in the middle of the back room as if he were still perched in it, shirtless with that shit-eating grin plastered across his goddamned face. Once, I almost sat in the chair — after carefully locking the door, of course, so no one would accidentally wander in and find me with my nose pressed to the leather, trying to see if it still smelled like him. And …
While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted are constrained by the credulous and when the “followers” are browbeating the "knowers", the cat is among the pigeons and the age of obscuration is under way. Obviously "something wicked this way comes…" ("His master's voice" )
You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2002–2024).