hectoring

• In one of his many hectoring or cajoling letters, Lord Chancellor Rich urged Mary to co-operate with the Sheriffof Essex in bringing her chaplains, Mallet and Barclay, to justice for defying the law, but she replied that she and they had been given the Council's assurance that they might worship God as they pleased. —  TheChildrenof
• It's tempting to write them off as hectoring, interfering alarmists who wish to tell you how to live. —  The Common Room
• This unAmerican piece of elitist hectoring is brought to us in the name of "tolerance" and for the singular purpose to elect the most radically leftist candidate for president this nation has seen since Eugene Debbs and Norman Thomas. —  The Reality Check
• Just love the "hectoring" tone of these sorts of adds - "Prepare to meet thy God" and other pish like that Re the BHA response - —  RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates
• I don't know about you but I find this the most disturbing point of all in this ribald Rabbi's hectoring hatemongering. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory

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