(n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
(n.) A brisk, dashing fellow.
(a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
(a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
(v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.
(v. i.) To act as a bully.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
(4) "For so long, management kept us down; they've broken us and bullied us," he said.
(5) One hundred days from Rio, Britain’s national cycling team has been thrown into chaos following the sudden resignation of its head, technical director Shane Sutton , as allegations of bullying and discrimination against women and Paralympians accumulated on Wednesday.
(6) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
(7) How, we might ask, can homophobic bullying be tackled when implicitly sanctioned by the school’s own literature?
(8) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(9) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
(10) "If I thought he was a bully or if I thought he was homophobic then I would take him off," Cooper told MediaGuardian's Radio Reborn conference in central London.
(11) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
(12) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(13) More like this: • Five reasons why the Ref is not fit for purpose • Struggle for top research grades fuels bullying among university staf f • Measuring impact: how Australia and the UK are tackling research assessment Enter the Guardian university awards 2015 and join the higher education network for more comment, analysis and job opportunities, direct to your inbox.
(14) In 2007 a fresh-faced MP spent two days at the home of a Muslim family in Birmingham and then wrote boldly of how it wasn’t possible to “bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them”; “you can’t even start to talk about a truly integrated society while people are suffering racist … abuse … on a daily basis”.
(15) "We should oppose the practices of the big bullying the small, the strong domineering over the weak and the rich oppressing the poor."
(16) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
(17) The report detailed several instances of bullying by pupils.
(18) The assessment of bullying in schools comes after police figures indicated that young people were the victims of 10% of faith hate crime and 8% of race hate crime between 16 June and 7 July.
(19) Earlier Alexander, the most senior Scottish MP in the UK cabinet, rejected claims that ministers in London were bullying Scotland into rejecting independence.
(20) Work on The Maze Runner came about, he says, because his director watched Son of Rambow “and knew I had some bully-ish qualities in my acting locker”.
Henchman
Definition:
(n.) An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.
Example Sentences:
(1) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
(2) In another corner, Tory hopeful Andrew Boff was explaining that his uncle wasn't after all, a henchman for the Krays; he was merely a wrestling dwarf who once played a Dalek.
(3) The henchman AI isn't very good in Skyfall , so they've simply added extra respawn points in the hope you won't notice.
(4) Jon Lansman (then a Tony Benn henchman, now a member of Corbyn’s inner circle) has already called for “mandatory reselection”.
(5) Jong-un’s latest purge, ironically, targeted his chief henchman.
(6) Smugger still is the accompanying (and relatively new) Instagram account – an endless stream of conspicuous consumption as Palermo enjoys yet more infinity pools (attentive readers might notice a theme emerging), luxury goods shopping ("I can't think of a better way to start the day in Paris than the ultimate girl's playground #DIOR") and interchangeable small dogs, usually flanked by at least one permatanned, ripped himbo henchman in shorty shorts.
(7) Key lashed back at Greenwald, calling him "Dotcom's little henchman" and a "loser", but later conceded that Snowden "may well be right" in his claim that the NSA monitors New Zealand communications through the XKeyScore tool.
(8) In fact, the most gold is found at the thin end of the villain spectrum – past the range where people want to blow everyone up and kill policemen, past the grunting henchman range and deep into the bit where you find the high-frequency douchebags.
(9) The most hateful character of all is Saridza's chief henchman, Captain Mailler.
(10) Baron Haussmann, Napoleon III's city-planning henchman, razed an estimated 60% of the medieval capital to create the grand boulevards.
(11) Clifford and a henchman even knew what room the identity parade had taken place in.
(12) Here he plays super-smooth microfilm smuggler Vandamm, egging on henchman Martin Landau to dispose of pesky Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.
(13) Reader, 77, a former henchman of crime boss Kenneth Noye, is also being tested for suspected cancer and may only have months left to live.
(14) Was it the result of a bizarre and careless mistake of a lowly henchman?
(15) Key denied the claim, dismissing Greenwald a conspiracy theorist, a “henchman” for Dotcom, and even a “loser”.
(16) One last job: the inside story of the Hatton Garden heist Read more Reader, a former henchman of crime boss Kenneth Noye and a key ringleader behind the heist at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company, travelled to Hatton Garden by bus using his Freedom Pass, and abandoned the burglary on its second night.
(17) Little has a "beastly asthma suffering henchman" called Flick Ferdinando.
(18) While Bush was the invasion’s prime architect, and Blair his all-too eager henchman – lapdog, as half the British people saw him at the time – their relative fortunes since stepping down from office would suggest the opposite relationship.
(19) Other songs played publicly by the band, which is closely linked to Russia's opposition movement, have included "Putin Pissed Himself", "Death to Prison, Freedom to Protest", and "Fuck the Sexist, Fuck Putin's Henchman."
(20) The GMB, which backed Owen Smith for the party leadership , criticised the move, saying it would force the UK to rely on foreign dictators – “henchman, hangmen and headchoppers” – for gas, as well as needlessly stop the creation of high-skilled jobs.