(1) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
(2) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(3) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(4) Sometimes the person who is going to die will appear to be angry and quite bossy, and tell me to hurry up, but I know it is not how they are feeling inside," she says.
(5) First black senator elected in south since Reconstruction Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Scott smiles with his mother, Frances Scott, after winning his Senate race over challengers Jill Bossi and Joyce Dickerson in South Carolina.
(6) Instead, she has used the take-no-prisoners bossiness that for years served as a distraction from her day job to develop a second career.
(7) Kate Winslet pops up as Jeanine Matthews, the aggy bossy boots on hand to keep the population down.
(8) In support of his new policy, Bossi explained that a war had been fought in Europe – monetary and non-military, but nevertheless a war – and Italy had lost.
(9) And Olivia Lee – who has the presenting style of a bossy girlfriend you'd flay a bag of kittens to be rid of – is not the woman to rebuild them.
(10) "Whoever is behind this attack had a message and it has been heard," said Mary Bossis, professor of international security at the University of Piraeus.
(11) Fat chicks deserve that, too.’” I probably would have finessed it a bit if I’d been sober, but way to lean in, bossy, drunk past-Lindy!
(12) Sending ability was positively related to teacher's ratings of activity level, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, bossiness, sociability, etc., and negatively related ti shyness, cooperation, emotional inhibition and control, etc.
(13) Earlier this year Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg launched a campaign to stamp out "bossy", claiming that it discourages young women from developing leadership skills.
(14) I'm the boss," announced Beyoncé in one of Sandberg's anti-bossy TV adverts.
(15) At Company X we had a joke that there were only two reviews for women – you are either too reticent or you are too bossy – no middle ground,” said one respondent .
(16) Confident women at work are still labeled "bossy" and "bitchy", to their own detriment – unless they can "turn it off" .
(17) Hilary Swank is gentlewoman farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, a transplant from upstate New York who has built a successful holding but lacks a husband; men tell her she’s “plain and bossy”.
(18) "I'm not saying I'm a shrinking violet – I'm not – I've been bossy all my life.
(19) She is bossy, domineering, abrasive, secretive, uptight and petty – but what really gets me is her serial use of covert, sneaky methods to get what she wants – often at my expense.
(20) She, like Abramson, was criticised for poor communication skills ("very difficult to talk to") , her bossiness ( "authoritarian" ) and her brusque nature ( "Putin-like" ).
Tyrannical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former SAS officer was helping organise a coup plot against the tyrannical President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, and Mark was anxious to join in.
(2) Lupita Nyong'o was shortlisted for the best supporting actress prize for her turn as an abused slave, while Michael Fassbender joined the best supporting actor race as a tyrannical plantation owner.
(3) There must be no compromise with Eritrea's tyrannical Afewerki regime Read more In the view of Neven Mimica, the EU commissioner for international cooperation and development, the package will help to tackle the root causes of migration from Eritrea.
(4) The Walworth Farce, which opens at the National Theatre next week, focuses on a tyrannical Irishman who has kept his two sons locked in a decrepit flat since the trio arrived in London almost two decades before.
(5) The actions of the police are showing the public what a tyrannical government looks like,” said Bonnie Leung, 27.
(6) Before taking over the wildlife refuge, Ritzheimer – like other extremists before him – posted a “goodbye” video for his family rationalizing his actions as defending freedom against a “tyrannical government”.
(7) All tyrants believe they are driven by a core Goodness, but that doesn't make them any less tyrannical.
(8) He says he was tortured at a site in the airport grounds and then sent to Libya , where Gaddafi had long seen him as one of the biggest threats to his tyrannical four-decade rule.
(9) On big issues it might be good, but on small ones it's tyrannical.
(10) Oh God, deal with the usurpers and oppressors and tyrannical Jews.
(11) At the core of many of the complaints is the belief that these entertainment spectaculars are tyrannical in their inflexibility.
(12) Some people say good things, some people say bad things … that’s history, and I would never use any kind of legal process like to try to suppress it.” Wales, who founded Wikipedia in 2001, has been outspoken against the right to be forgotten, frequently describing it as “censorship” and “tyrannical”.
(13) Tantawi then tried but failed to placate his critics by demanding that Israel end tyrannical practices against the Palestinians.
(14) Social structure (hierarchy) was studied by the intruder method and social function (peaceful or tyrannic hierarchy) by inspection of the subordinate voles for wounds.
(15) The pavilion itself, a power-temple designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer in 1938, acts as a tyrannical shell for a reconstruction of the Kanzlerbungalow, or Chancellor's Bungalow, built in Bonn in 1964 by modernist architect Sep Ruf.
(16) What would any tyrannical regime possessing WMD think viewing the history of the world's diplomatic dance with Saddam?
(17) In a country where power in the workplace has shifted so decisively towards employers – benevolent or tyrannical, it’s the luck of the draw – you can see why self-employment is almost a refuge for many.
(18) Yet, to make this thing happen, 250 homes were demolished and families were forcibly evicted , the project tarnished by the tyrannical regime’s catalogue of human rights abuses – a factor that has since plagued Hadid’s other projects, including the World Cup stadium in Qatar.
(19) During his tyrannical rule, Gaddafi turned what was a sleepy coastal village into a town of garish concrete, hoping to fulfill a megalomaniac dream to make it the capital of a United States of Africa.
(20) Here were states whose leadership cared for no-one but themselves; were often cruel and tyrannical towards their own people; and who saw WMD as a means of defending themselves against any attempt external or internal to remove them and who, in their chaotic and corrupt state, were in any event porous and irresponsible with neither the will nor capability to prevent terrorists who also hated the West, from exploiting their chaos and corruption.