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  • adverb In a domineering manner.

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  • adverb in a domineering manner

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Examples

  • Male or female, if we have a leader who cannot control their emotions (NH and now this), we are going to have a really hard time getting the leaders of domineeringly patriarchal countries to give the respect needed. carl

    Hillary Clinton chokes up in CNN interview 2008

  • But the looker-on may sit too long and hold forth too curiously and domineeringly for his own health.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • The sailors laughed jeeringly " stocky, bearded Argosseans to a man " and one, whose richer dress and air of command proclaimed him captain, folded his arms and said domineeringly:

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The sailors laughed jeeringly " stocky, bearded Argosseans to a man " and one, whose richer dress and air of command proclaimed him captain, folded his arms and said domineeringly:

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • She was getting impatient; the whole of her being was setting positively, undeniably, domineeringly brushing aside all this unnecessary trifling (Peter Walsh and his affairs) upon that subject which engaged her attention, and not merely her attention, but that fibre which was the ramrod of her soul, that essential part of her without which Millicent Bruton would not have been

    Mrs. Dalloway 2003

  • Becau5e he'd been domineeringly male about the whole q, thing, and I can't stand being treated like a helpless fej male.

    Too Many Bosses Freed, Jan 1995

  • The sailors laughed jeeringly - stocky, bearded Argosseans to a man - and one, whose richer dress and air of command proclaimed him captain, folded his arms and said domineeringly: ` We found you lying on the sands.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • 'Do you know who I am?' he growled, thrusting his head forward and staring domineeringly at his shrinking prey.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • The sailors laughed jeeringly - stocky, bearded Argosseans to a man - and one, whose richer dress and air of command proclaimed him captain, folded his arms and said domineeringly: 'We found you lying on the sands.

    The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977

  • The sailors laughed jeeringly'stocky, bearded Argosseans to a man-and one, whose richer dress and air of command proclaimed him captain, folded his arms and said domineeringly:

    The Hour of the Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977

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