bossily

• “Outside men with walkie-talkies bossily order the exceptionally well-behaved crowd to remain behind the rope, which they were already doing.”

  The Guardian: Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 24 June

• “Towards the end of my Enid Blyton phase, in late primary school, I bossily founded a writing club, which I called the Bluebell Club.”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » THE BLUEBELL CLUB: Or, Confession of a Literary Crime

• “How is including certain books over others in the collection not informing (bossily and intrusively) the community what the librarian thinks is important?”

  Bagging our principles

• “I had even bossily told him I got to choose the names, which he accepted with a loving grin and kissed my forehead.”

  Just because it is the right decision doesn't mean it is easy

• “No more work, " Sadie said bossily, proving Claudia's theory.”

  Hot For Him

• “What makes my jaw drop is that people today should base their lives on such an appalling role model as Yahweh - and, even worse, that they should bossily try to force the same evil monster (whether fact or fiction) on the rest of us.”

  The God Delusion

• “I saw how important it was to arrange seating bossily in advance.”

  Putting Guests in Their Place

• “All in favour of the DA?' said Hermione bossily, kneeling up on her cushion to count.”

  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

• “He devised a game whereby they dealt out two packs of cards to each other "First one to collect all the aces rides," he told her bossily, then, she was pretty sure, he cheated to let her win.”

  Bottled Spider

• “You mustn't have tried hard enough,' Lorraine told her bossily.”

  The Demetrios Virgin

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