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"browbeat" Definitions
  1. browbeat somebody (into doing something) to frighten or threaten somebody in order to make them do something
"browbeat" Synonyms
threaten bully intimidate coerce dragoon pressurise(UK) pressurize(US) bulldoze cow hector badger bogart domineer compel persecute pressure blackjack bullyrag force goad bother annoy vex irritate trouble irk bug upset disturb exasperate aggravate harass worry gall torment rile plague provoke nettle peeve influenced convinced manipulated persuaded inveigled tempted urged beguiled brainwashed bribed coaxed coerced controlled directed exploited finagled jockeyed played steered swayed influence convince manipulate persuade inveigle tempt urge beguile brainwash bribe coax control direct exploit finagle jockey play steer sway face down confront outface overawe beard defy outstare brazen out face out stand up to stare down stare out hold your own stand your ground stay the course stick to your guns brave face catechize examine interrogate question grill quiz cross-examine pump cross-question interview probe query sweat drill sound out put the screws on worm something out of someone give the third degree to put through the third degree give the third degree slap down admonish reprimand reproach scold rebuke deflate tell off take to task tick off put down put someone in their place take down a peg or two have a go at berate chide upbraid censure chastise reprove made forced pressured compelled required drove induced obliged pressed pressurized(US) caused commanded constrained impelled impressed demanded intimidated obligated ordered crush humble humiliate make someone eat humble pie cut down to size shoot down in flames make someone eat crow settle someone's hash shame degrade demean abase chasten disgrace debase abash take down More
"browbeat" Antonyms
lure tempt beguile coax entice flatter maneuver(US) manoeuvre(UK) seduce aid assist boost cajole compliment help inveigle persuade praise sweet-talk wheedle allow discourage dissuade encourage free halt release repress stop suppress leave alone let go leave in peace let be let alone make happy calm comfort embolden gladden hearten incite inspirit please soothe reassure assure delight urge stimulate expect follow serve submit surrender yield underwhelm advise exhort recommend suggest counsel caution admonish advocate propose forewarn guide instruct relent abate wane relax soften weaken slow moderate slacken subside ease off ease up deter disadvise disincline dehort divert pull prevent advise against caution against persuade against defend guard protect safeguard shelter shield alleviate approve commend relieve save stick up for support bolster cheer uplift buoy solace console undaunt buoy up cheer up give confidence confused abashed addled baffled bamboozled beclouded bedeviled(US) bedevilled(UK) befuddled bemused bewildered blurred clouded cluttered confounded dazed demoralized(US) discombobulated disconcerted discountenanced confuse abash addle baffle bamboozle becloud bedevil befuddle bemuse bewilder blur cloud clutter confound daze demoralise(UK) demoralize(US) discombobulate disconcert discountenance benefit obey service succor(US) succour(UK) attend to slave for work for be employed by be obedient to perform duties for be of assistance to be of service to be of use to be in the service of carry out the wishes of forestall keep impede inhibit hinder block curb intercept elucidate explain explicate expound clarify illuminate illustrate demonstrate make clear spell out cave in dodge duck funk shirk sidestep capitulate give in be submissive ask convince request appeal beg beseech invite reason talk into let motivate permit plead with asked convinced persuaded requested cajoled coaxed encouraged urged appealed begged beseeched besought enticed invited reasoned talked into something allowed motivated permitted admire appreciate endorse laud acclaim extol applaud hail celebrate respect honor(US) honour(UK) salute tout toast

120 Sentences With "browbeat"

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Trump's efforts to browbeat are unlikely to overcome these limitations.
Trump has continued to browbeat reporters and has denounced peaceful protests.
If I say that, then somebody will try to browbeat me.
His attempts to browbeat Mexico into submission may have the opposite effect.
Having failed to browbeat Canada into submission by the American-imposed Aug.
He is no longer a businessman trying to browbeat someone into a deal.
The president publicly browbeat and insulted allies as deadbeats taking advantage of American generosity.
For starters, defense lawyers say authorities browbeat the ringleader in the case -- Rick Singer.
This is no accident: these are the tools used to browbeat defendants into guilty pleas.
But in practice, senators press their parochial concerns and browbeat nominees to fall into line.
The suit claims Rubin browbeat de la Huerta to fire Tensor Law, which she did.
President Trump hasn't tried to exert his full force to browbeat Congress into lifting those sanctions.
So Tatts may be able to browbeat an improved share-swap ratio out of it instead.
But the 13 Tory grandees — all male, all white — who descended on Chequers to browbeat Mrs.
Any thought that Mr. Trump could just browbeat Mr. Kim into giving up the nuclear program is dubious.
Neither is the Lions' matriarch, Martha Firestone Ford, although she did browbeat Goodell at a meeting over terrible officiating.
Across the country, party leaders encouraged, coaxed and even browbeat their rank and file into a message of unity.
While researchers get a better handle on the science, campaigners badger politicians and browbeat consumers to kick the polymer habit.
In 1982 America browbeat the European Community, the forerunner of the European Union, into limiting its steel exports to America.
What if the police browbeat this guy to give him whatever confession they say, which is yet to be seen?
Otherwise, the fear is that he can use the same tactic to browbeat the Democratic House majority in the future.
Trump fumed, and rightfully so, that the Europeans used this diplomatic occasion to browbeat the American president on global warming.
He regularly browbeat his opponents into passing his agenda, because they were more afraid of an election than he was.
"The promised land is before us, not behind us," he said, while encouraging them to inspire, not browbeat, their people.
Stymied, according to the report, McKinsey browbeat the contracting officer, threatening to resubmit the proposal until it got its way.
But Washington is waiting to see whether President Trump bites — and can then browbeat other Republicans into voting for it.
The person he phoned had contacted Mr. Ailes, whose public relations representative called Mr. Sherman to browbeat him into backing off.
It's part of his effort to browbeat the central bank into juicing the economy, which would improve his re-election chances.
This suggests that while Mr. Trump can browbeat manufacturers into staying in America, he can't force them to hire many people.
This, at least, is the feeling reflected in the growing popularity of a word once used to browbeat liberals and leftists.
This is an effort to take my associates and browbeat them to get one of them to say something negative about me.
It was a bit too subversive for them, and we basically browbeat them into it by making the film predominantly in Vancouver.
Laced with subtle themes of fascism and overzealous Christianity, it was a political album that didn't browbeat the listener with overt politics.
This, mind you, is the same political party that fetishized balanced budgets and browbeat Democrats about being the foolishly, fatally profligate ones.
Above all, they've tried to browbeat the companies into adopting better policies around things like fact-checking, content moderation, and political ads.
Two of them, William Stevens and Aaron Prince, have said that Detective Terrell browbeat them into signing false complaints about Mr. Hernandez.
They often wield the threat of a blasphemy allegation in order to browbeat university departments into scrapping courses in music or comparative religion.
Ormsby Gore, also known as Lord Harlech, said the meeting was "most disagreeable," with Khrushchev trying to "browbeat" and "frighten" the young president.
The government of Justin Trudeau whines in response and hopes that the American left will browbeat Trump so he has to back down.
From it, he tried to dismantle Obama-era climate policies, undermine scientific consensus and browbeat federal agencies for what he called scientific fraud.
"She will not have DUP support regardless of whether the government tries to bribe, bully or browbeat us into accepting it," Wilson also said.
Are we going to browbeat Robbie Savage into getting his bollocks out, because we don't like his post-match assessment of Everton vs. Hull?
In April, for example, members of Congress browbeat Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg for ostensibly silencing Diamond and Silk, sisters who produce pro-Trump videos.
On Wednesday thousands of people poured onto the streets to protest against what they saw as an attempt by PiS to further browbeat judges.
When Ronald Reagan was faced with a big trade deficit with Japan, he browbeat Japan's carmakers (among others) into restraining their exports "voluntarily" (see article).
A slew of companies such as Marriott, Coach, and Calvin Klein have all been browbeat by China into making public apologies over supposed faux pas.
But it's only when Jamal's father shows up unannounced to browbeat the kid about his gunshot-induced stage fright that the younger Lyon's pulse skyrockets.
The aggressive people who browbeat the patrons in going for a dance were the most successful, and if you didn't keep up, you'd be going hungry.
Now German and Dutch politicians are trying to browbeat Mario Draghi, the ECB's current president, into ending the bank's policy of negative interest rates (see article).
As for China, which Mr. Trump promised to browbeat into offering trade concessions, recent negotiations ended with few signs of progress toward avoiding a trade war.
The president, in this view, does not need to browbeat Mr. Sessions about ending the investigation when he could simply order it scuttled on his own.
"They try to browbeat and cower people, countries, presidents, prime ministers and the like all over in order to get them to back off," Smith noted.
Warren's course of action is to either have unaccountable agency heads willing to follow orders, or browbeat those who won't, regardless of what the law says.
He became a beauty intern after writing a blog post, "BrowBeat: Confessions of an Over-Tweezed Teen," about his eyebrows, following a painful experience with online bullying.
Thus the right is able to manipulate the media environment and browbeat the left into failing to support its own base, its most engaged and passionate members.
The administration of Donald Trump has attempted to browbeat Western allies into forswearing Huawei too; imposing a ban of its own was expected to help with the cajoling.
Carrier got bribed and browbeat by the president-elect into keeping several hundred jobs in Indiana, while Trump's tweets wiped billions of dollars from Boeing and Lockheed's market capitalizations.
The First Lady could browbeat others; rarely did she get the better of Mary, a politician in her own right and more skilled, devious and ambitious than she was.
I'll have to be satisfied, for now, with using the tried-and-tested form of a semi-deranged blog post to attempt to browbeat American publishers into acquiring it.
"For hours each day, the prosecutors interrogate him, browbeat him, lecture him and berate him, outside the presence of his attorneys, in an effort to extract a confession," she said.
He has vowed to tweak the tax code and browbeat the bosses of such giant firms as Ford, Apple and Boeing until they make more of their products at home.
Trump's efforts to browbeat the U.S. car industry show he may go further than other modern presidents to try to influence corporate decisions, especially those related to trade and investment.
According to Axios, the president and his staff are spreading the story that he is a "crazy guy," as a way to browbeat North Korea and other nations in negotiations.
"For hours each day, the prosecutors interrogate him, browbeat him, lecture him, and berate him, outside the presence of his attorneys, in an effort to extract a confession," she added.
On Monday, Trump hosted top television news executives and anchors at Trump Tower for an explosive meeting in which he reportedly browbeat those in attendance for their coverage of him.
To have a real impact on drug prices, Congress will need to do a lot more than browbeat pharmaceutical executives in the hopes of shaming them into reducing their prices.
Rather than browbeat their recalcitrant underlings, the Two announced, sadly, that they were going to leave the group for a time to meditate on why they had failed in their leadership.
In the interview, Mr. Juárez said he had help dispose of the girl's body, but he denied he had killed the child and claimed the detectives browbeat him into a confession.
I browbeat Cabinet officials for information and got backed up by Clinton and his chiefs of staff, who told Cabinet secretaries that they needed to be attentive to all my requests.
I always say that was the day I became a future writer, because if this book thing was important enough for my mother to browbeat a librarian, it must be worthwhile.
He has browbeat Republicans into remaining unified, though election losses in Virginia and an apparent narrow victory for Democrats in Kentucky's governor race have provided little evidence of Trump's political capital.
So far, Trump's strategy has relied on tweeted threats to slap tariffs on U.S. companies that expand production outside the U.S. and browbeat them on Twitter to build more factories at home.
He has promised not to devolve power from Washington but to concentrate it in the Oval Office, where a President Trump would bully and browbeat global friends, foes and corporate bosses alike.
By the weekend, Fox News host Tucker Carlson had worked up a lather over #EndFathersDay, and Fox & Friends invited the author Susan Patton onto the show to browbeat the alleged feminists responsible.
He has pledged to browbeat the bosses of such giant firms as Ford, Apple and Boeing to make more of their products at home, with the help of tweaks to the tax code.
Former employees have described a pressure-cooker sales culture inside the bank where managers had browbeat staff into hitting aggressive daily sales quotas, which in turn led some workers to create unauthorized accounts.
Pushed by President Trump to repeal the A.C.A., or Obamacare, so he could claim a legislative win, Mr. Ryan and his lieutenants browbeat and cajoled members of their caucus to pass the bill.
In the interview, published by The Times the next day, Mr. Juárez said he helped dispose of the girl's body but denied killing the child and claimed the detectives browbeat him into a confession.
A party trying to govern with a minority in the House of Commons can either cooperate with smaller parties to pass bills or browbeat them, essentially daring the weaker party to trigger an election.
Trump's capacity to browbeat GOP senators into supporting him, even if some harbor doubts about his behavior reflects his greatest political success — the transformation of the Republican Party in his own fact-denying image.
Pelosi has tapped her deep network of allies, both in and out of Congress, to launch a ferocious public relations campaign designed to browbeat her critics with the unsubtle suggestion that their efforts are futile.
It&aposs also bringing increasing economic pressure and most recently has browbeat international airlines and businesses into referring to Taiwan as part of China, a move condemned by Taipei and its ally, the United States.
Holbrooke's tenacity as he whirled through the region might have, if he had been given time and support, allowed him to cajole and browbeat the prideful warlords there as he had done in the Balkans.
It is the latest point of friction between neighbors that have also been at odds over Trump's vow to build a wall on the border and his attempts to browbeat Mexico into giving concessions on trade.
It doesn't browbeat the listener by being overtly political, but is inherently so, given that she is penning songs about her experiences with same-sex parenthood in a country where that is still a radical act.
The majority leader, Mitch McConnell, browbeat and cajoled 50 members of his caucus to vote to begin a debate on health care without even telling the country which of several competing bills he wanted to pass.
Washington has tried to downplay the tensions, which follow arguments between the United States and Mexico over Trump's vow to build a wall on the border and his attempts to browbeat Mexico into giving concessions on trade.
He accused opponent Donald Trump of working to "browbeat" officials involved in the investigation into revisiting their decision, and said that the campaign believed the newly discovered emails would not change the outcome of the previous investigation.
Donald Trump's election as U.S. president has, for some critics, brought that vision closer to reality as he uses social media to browbeat opponents, and lawmakers in a number of states seek to restrict women's reproductive rights.
Now, however, we are witnessing the spectacle of Trump and Cohen trying to figure out how to prevail in individual courts of law, where they cannot browbeat their way through or threaten to fire the other side.
One exfollower reports attending a meeting at Rajneeshpuram at which Ma Anand Sheela cajoled and browbeat those present to contribute every last possible dime, from their own resources or from family or friends, to the Rajneesh treasury.
Even Hedda Hopper, the gossip columnist who went on to browbeat blacklisted Hollywood stars, fell under his spell, pronouncing Molotov "charming" and likening him in her column to Teddy Roosevelt (probably because they both wore pince-nez).
It seems to me the oddest of asks: Surrender what you know to be a principled position because "moving on" and "moderation" are the instruments that polite society uses to browbeat the radical insisting on righteous restoration.
"The government has adopted the slogan 'Get Brexit Done' to try and browbeat an exhausted public into accepting whatever botched Brexit Boris Johnson presents to them, but we know this slogan is a lie," the group added.
"The US would be sadly mistaken if it thinks that it can browbeat someone through trite 'gunboat diplomacy' which it used to employ as an almighty weapon in the past and attain its sinister intention," it added.
That strategy was vindicated at the first vice presidential debate in Farmville, Virginia Monday night, where her running mate Tim Kaine browbeat Trump's running mate Mike Pence repeatedly, forcing Pence to choose between defending the indefensible and lying.
So here are three specific and conservative-friendly spending proposals that would work for the GOP primaries and beyond: Democrats poll well when they browbeat private business owners and demand $15/hour minimum wages for fast food workers.
And he did not browbeat senators in person, as he has on Twitter, about changing their rules to make it easier to push through legislation along party lines or about scrapping their summer vacation to work on his agenda.
As early as 1838, local politicians had "repelled public inquiry into their actions, browbeat the taxpayers when they complained, and broke down that high sense of propriety in public office and trusts," the historian Henry Stiles wrote in 1868.
But Trump, using Twitter, browbeat Senate Republicans to skip their recess and keep trying, something GOP leaders never seriously contemplated doing, according to a GOP leadership aide Some senators appear perfectly content in their willingness to stray from the party line.
Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had worked in the Ford administration and clearly learned from Team B how to set up counter-organizations, notably the Office of Special Plans, to browbeat the intelligence community to follow a political agenda.
It's understandable that the Biden camp would want to devote resources to pushing back on Trump's risible claims: The president's willingness to try to browbeat Kyiv into launching an investigation into a political rival is as impeachable as it is unprecedented.
" The New York Times editorial board makes the same point, arguing: "To have a real impact on drug prices, Congress will need to do a lot more than browbeat pharmaceutical executives in the hopes of shaming them into reducing their prices.
I think even what the president was saying last night made that evident where he said, you know, he stays out of it, he doesn't browbeat Jay Powell or anything, but he thinks interest rates could do this or that.
He was so tired the next day that his mother, 44-year-old single homemaker Diana Nunez, had to browbeat him into doing his workout routine, which includes a makeshift weightlifting session with two sand-filled bottles strung to a pole.
We can wonder what Mr. Trump's presidency would have been like if he had leaned into that side of his TV character from the beginning, rather than the shark from the "Apprentice" boardroom who fomented conflict, browbeat losers and relished fights.
Instead, he insisted that he was right and scientists were wrong, until he actually browbeat the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), without any evidence, to officially side with him (for telling a lie) and chastise NWS (for telling the truth).
Though you spend the majority of the trek fighting against and trying to escape "shadow Madeline"—or, rather, her self-loathing and low self-esteem—you ultimately crest the mountain by realizing that mental illness isn't something you can browbeat into submission.
But if there's a company that can browbeat us all into loving a new macOS that's more in line with iOS and features hamstrung apps not as capable or as quick as their predecessors (on machines slower than anything with Windows on it), it's Apple.
It would be heartening to think that this means China's leaders realise that the best way to win hearts and minds in Hong Kong and Taiwan is not to bribe, browbeat and bully, but to make China itself look a more attractive sovereign power.
Several Republican senators have sought to distance themselves from the president, who has belittled them as looking like "fools" and tried to strong-arm their agenda and browbeat them into changing a venerated rule to make it easier to ram through legislation along party lines.
Schiff said Trump "was secretly meeting with the postmaster (general) in an effort to browbeat the postmaster into raising postal rates on Amazon... This appears to be an effort by the president to use the instruments of state power to punish Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post," Schiff said.
But, while the remarkable Love Over Will both references and slickly inverts Crowley's 1904 tome The Book of the Law—the central text of the long departed magician's philosophical religion known as Thelema—Smoke hardly seems the type to browbeat a listener with a hymnal, literally or figuratively.
"The U.S. should know that it can neither browbeat the DPRK with any economic sanctions and military threats and blackmail nor make the DPRK flinch from the road chosen by itself," North Korea's official Rodong Sinmun said, using the initials of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
He was named 31 times in the 72-page legal complaint, which said that after receiving the initial grievance, the college had been slow to protect the women from further abuse, and that Dr. Bucci had called a department meeting where he browbeat the women who were planning to sue.
PIKALEVO, Russia — The factory meeting room where the Russian leader Vladimir V. Putin browbeat one of Russia's richest tycoons in front of cameras from state television has become a shrine, hallowed ground where Mr. Putin showed a path out of economic pain for ordinary people and calmed a spasm of worker unrest.
"Schiff said he's been "very reluctant" to pursue impeachment, but if the report was true and Trump was "trying to browbeat a foreign leader into...providing dirt on his opponent during a presidential campaign, then that may be the only remedy that is co-equal to the evil that that conduct represents.
"Here we have a president who made a political decision and is about to browbeat industry to fall in line," said David Friedman, the acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under President Barack Obama who is now director of cars and product policy at the Consumers Union, an advocacy group.
What Moore's not saying, but has become clear enough to anyone paying attention, is that he is following a path mapped by President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign: Deny everything, browbeat the women who come forward (and chill the waters for those who might yet) with legal threats and attack the press for investigating and publishing stories about their claims.
"If the President is essentially withholding military aid at the same time that he is trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit that is providing dirt on his opponent during a presidential campaign, then that may be the only remedy that is coequal to the evil that conduct represents," the California Democrat told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," stopping short of calling on Congress to immediately launch proceedings.

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