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  • noun Plural form of bullying.

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Examples

  • He made it a point to identify all of them, receiving, while he did so, scowls and mutterings, and reciprocating with cocky bullyings and threatenings.

    CHAPTER III 2010

  • Either way, Labour hate Shipton because he's the only person who reports the contortions, bullyings, double crosses, and general seedy manoeuverings by which they've enforced their incompetent hegemony over Wales.

    Electoral Bullshit 2008

  • And this growing up is a matter of people no longer being vulnerable to the opinions, the manipulations, the bullyings - intellectual and otherwise - of other people.

    Archbishop Celebrates Selwyn College's 125th Anniversary 2008

  • Of all the bullyings and denunciations that were ever heaped on one unlucky head, none can ever have exceeded in energy and heartiness those with which he was complimented by each of his remaining relatives, singly, upon bidding him farewell.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • God would punish her for not being nicer to him—punish her for all her bullyings and proddings and storms of temper and cutting remarks, for alienating his friends and shaming him by operating the mills and building the saloon and leasing convicts.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • God would punish her for not being nicer to him—punish her for all her bullyings and proddings and storms of temper and cutting remarks, for alienating his friends and shaming him by operating the mills and building the saloon and leasing convicts.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • God would punish her for not being nicer to him—punish her for all her bullyings and proddings and storms of temper and cutting remarks, for alienating his friends and shaming him by operating the mills and building the saloon and leasing convicts.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • God would punish her for not being nicer to him—punish her for all her bullyings and proddings and storms of temper and cutting remarks, for alienating his friends and shaming him by operating the mills and building the saloon and leasing convicts.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • God would punish her for not being nicer to him—punish her for all her bullyings and proddings and storms of temper and cutting remarks, for alienating his friends and shaming him by operating the mills and building the saloon and leasing convicts.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • [ "Hear, hear!"] and in the repeated bullyings and attempts to terrorize

    New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? Various

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