What's the difference between intimidate and intimidatory?
Intimidate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of intimidation and abuse that has taken place make it very unlikely that women will be clamouring to go back.” Another former shadow minister said they were also not convinced they would stand again.
(2) There, the US Joint Commission, an independent, non-profit organisation that accredits healthcare organisations and programmes has issued a standard on “behaviours that undermine a culture of safety” to tackle “intimidating and disruptive behaviour at work”.
(3) In these populations it is necessary to consider the relations between emotional distress and socio-political context, particularly the processes of terror and intimidation and the conditions of migratory illegality and social marginality.
(4) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.
(5) Diskerud has shown in flashes that he’s not intimidated by big games and is willing to try something.
(6) We’re fed up with being threatened and intimidated.
(7) A statement from al-Shabaab on Monday said the latest attack – the deadliest since Westgate – was revenge for the "Kenyan government's brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars".
(8) The effort to intimidate investigators – and the apparent involvement of military police – has prompted calls for Brazil's justice ministry to declare an emergency.
(9) Reps are asked to sign a contract that includes the clause: “I will not promote the singing of abusive, offensive, crude or intimidating chants and songs.” The contract also asks reps to confirm that they are “the first representative of the University of Nottingham that new students will meet and therefore recognise that [they are] a role model”.
(10) It also said: “We should aim to break the right quickly, and teach those around us not to be intimidated by the rightwing’s longer years of service and apparently superior ‘Labour knowledge’ or prestige.” The July issue of the group’s newspaper, Solidarity, led with the headline “ Flood into the Labour party”.
(11) We express our strong opposition to any intimidating, coercive or provocative unilateral actions that could alter the status quo and increase tensions.” The G7 statement did not explicitly name China, but Beijing lays claim to almost all of the South China Sea despite conflicting partial claims from Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines.
(12) The tribunal said the conduct had "the effect of violating the claimant's dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment".
(13) He had told the court that Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC, had intimidated him to sell his share in the oil firm Sibneft at a massive discount.
(14) Donald Trump press ban: BBC, CNN and Guardian denied access to briefing Read more Rob Mahoney, deputy executive director of the CPJ , a nonprofit that promotes press freedom worldwide, told the Guardian Trump’s attacks on the press do not “help our work trying to deal with countries like Turkey, Ethiopia or Venezuela, where you have governments who want to nothing more than to silence and intimidate the press.” Mahoney also said attempts to favour conservative press outlets and declare the mainstream media the “enemy of the American people” looked like a deliberate effort by the White House to “inoculate itself from criticism”.
(15) I had all these brothers and uncles so I understood the nature of men and I didn't go in there feeling all intimidated.
(16) "They are happy because, at a time when talk of war, intimidation and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of Iran is spoken here through her glorious culture."
(17) He was at pains to rebut criticism in the western media over the jailing of journalists caught up in the long-running investigation into an attempted military coup and claims that the government has used the case to intimidate sections of the press.
(18) Today the Turkish government has levelled baseless and alarmingly false charges of ‘working on behalf of a terrorist organisation’ against three Vice News reporters, in an attempt to intimidate and censor their coverage,” Sutcliffe said.
(19) This whole affair was a brazen attempt to intimidate those who believe that drilling for oil in the melting Arctic is reckless and unsafe.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest We will not be intimidated by Isis, says New York City mayor The city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, appeared with police commissioner Bill Bratton in Times Square at 11pm to say there was “no specific or credible threat” to the city, dismissing the video as an “obvious attempt to intimidate the people of New York”.
Intimidatory
Definition:
(a.) Tending or serving to intimidate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Guardian has also seen letters, including three by BAT, sent to the governments of Uganda, Namibia, Togo, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso revealing the intimidatory tactics that tobacco companies are using, accusing governments of breaching their own laws and international trade agreements and warning of damage to the economy.
(2) • Propose that unlawful or intimidatory picketing should become a criminal as opposed to civil offence and new protections should be available for those workers unwilling to strike.
(3) He should really take firm leadership against the people who are giving him an appalling name.” Another Labour MP, Stephen Kinnock, the Labour MP for Aberavon, who voted against the airstrikes, said: “If there is evidence that Momentum has been orchestrating and organising intimidatory tactics against greatly valued colleagues, then there needs to be a full investigation into that and if necessary the organisation should be suspended and if necessary closed down.” One shadow minister, Diana Johnson, who also voted against airstrikes, said she felt something more needed to be done by the Labour leadership to deal with online threats against MPs.
(4) They have neither the funds nor enough expertise to deal with the big tobacco companies’ threats, intimidatory letters and law suits.
(5) "To suggest it's intimidatory to give out Bibles in a Christian country is nonsense.
(6) More than half of teachers who had been bullied say they experienced persistent, unjustified criticism and 45% reported intimidatory use of discipline and competence procedures against them.
(7) With so many foreign journalists in Havana following the announcement, participants also feared that the relaxed atmosphere may be an exception and that intimidatory tactics will be renewed when international attention has shifted elsewhere.
(8) Sir Mervyn King has denied there is an intimidatory culture at Threadneedle Street, and insisted his staff at the Bank of England were happy to express dissent.
(9) The review's terms of reference are now limited to an assessment of the alleged use of extreme tactics in industrial disputes, including leverage, which directly targets managers, and the effectiveness of the existing legal framework to prevent inappropriate or intimidatory actions in trade disputes.
(10) • The Guardian editor said he considered some of the UK government’s actions towards the paper since publication as intimidatory – but said he would not be intimidated and would continue to publish such stories.
(11) Britain's envoy to Ukraine, Simon Smith, tweeted that he was "hugely disturbed this morning to see pictures of deplorable intimidatory violence".
(12) The review suggested that Gordon's intimidatory behaviour did not excuse professionals' missed opportunities to intervene, but it noted: "Dealing with safeguarding inquiries and assessments can be a stressful process for workers, particularly when attempting to undertake work with aggressive and highly resistant adults."
(13) Last week, the Labour leader was forced to condemn any "intimidatory tactics" used by unions in industrial disputes, after Unite members were accused of personally targeting Ineos management during the row over pay and conditions at Grangemouth.
(14) A summons to an intimidatory chat with police; detention; or even jail could be the result.
(15) Sisi's intimidatory shadow hovers over Egypt's institutions, including the judiciary and media.
(16) The precise terms of reference involve "the alleged use of extreme tactics in industrial disputes, including so-called 'leverage' tactics; and the effectiveness of the existing legal framework to prevent inappropriate or intimidatory actions in trade disputes".
(17) North Korean border guards peered through binoculars into the South, where soldiers who have been selected for border duty because of their imposing stature stared back through mirrored shades, perfectly still in a taekwondo pose designed for maximum intimidatory effect.
(18) "Many external observers are troubled that the MPS is adopting the intimidatory approach of seeking to interview these whistleblowers under caution – ie treating them as potential defendants as opposed to potential witnesses," he said.
(19) As part of his remit, Carr will consider whether existing laws are sufficient to prevent what government sources described as "inappropriate or intimidatory actions" in trade disputes as well as the response of the police to complaints.
(20) The Democratic Unionist party leader said putting it up was an "intimidatory act".