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  • noun Alternative form of bully boy.

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Examples

  • The King's Speech on the surface could be seen as almost subversive; the odious characters believe in rank and grandeur, whether it be their sneer at Australian Lionel Logue's audition for a Shakespeare play, or the contemptible bully-boy tactics which Cameron recently showed in Parliament of Prince Edward toward his brother.

    John Johnston: The Royal Wedding and the British Relationship With Class John Johnston 2011

  • Cohn center, who Paul called “fascist bully-boy types,” with McCarthy during a subcommittee hearing in 1953.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government.

    Ivory Coast's descent into madness 2011

  • The King's Speech on the surface could be seen as almost subversive; the odious characters believe in rank and grandeur, whether it be their sneer at Australian Lionel Logue's audition for a Shakespeare play, or the contemptible bully-boy tactics which Cameron recently showed in Parliament of Prince Edward toward his brother.

    John Johnston: The Royal Wedding and the British Relationship With Class John Johnston 2011

  • The King's Speech on the surface could be seen as almost subversive; the odious characters believe in rank and grandeur, whether it be their sneer at Australian Lionel Logue's audition for a Shakespeare play, or the contemptible bully-boy tactics which Cameron recently showed in Parliament of Prince Edward toward his brother.

    John Johnston: The Royal Wedding and the British Relationship With Class John Johnston 2011

  • In the Bush administration, "we had this bully-boy rhetoric, gunslinger walking down the street approach," Eaton says.

    Who is Obama? Pragmatism makes him tough to define 2011

  • If empty-headed bully-boy Cameron represents the British cultural attributes we should be aspiring to integrate ourselves into, God of whatever creed help us all!

    Multiculturalism: Mr Cameron's crude caricature solves no problems | Observer editorial 2011

  • If empty-headed bully-boy Cameron represents the British cultural attributes we should be aspiring to integrate ourselves into, God of whatever creed help us all!

    Multiculturalism: Mr Cameron's crude caricature solves no problems | Observer editorial 2011

  • But speaking from the scene of the vote Karpov's supporters this afternoon described the ballot as a "farce", and said Ilyumzhinov had used "intimidation, bully-boy tactics" and even "blatant corruption" to steamroller his way to victory.

    Chess world shocked as Karpov fails to capture top job Luke Harding in Moscow 2010

  • The King's Speech on the surface could be seen as almost subversive; the odious characters believe in rank and grandeur, whether it be their sneer at Australian Lionel Logue's audition for a Shakespeare play, or the contemptible bully-boy tactics which Cameron recently showed in Parliament of Prince Edward toward his brother.

    John Johnston: The Royal Wedding and the British Relationship With Class John Johnston 2011

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