How To Use Bossy In A Sentence

  • It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.
  • The hound has to be a real character who tends to be bossy and, maybe, has become too much of a handful for his owners to deal with.
  • I'm not sure if she was officially beachmaster, or just being bossy.
  • These two bossy, determined, sharp nosed, short women certainly appear to have much in common.
  • Hey Bossy, maybe you should have left this one for a Friday! ruru replied to Nicole NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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  • Speaking last week, after they had moved out and on condition of anonymity, they described him as ‘very bossy and imposing’ but with a ‘technical mind’.
  • When she was in the Wrens during the war, her friends used to call her Bossy Rossy.
  • She does sometimes come across as a bit bossy and up herself. The Sun
  • We in this country have had enough of a bossyboots Government that interferes in people's lives.
  • Bossy adults are turning baseball into a buzz kill for kids.
  • Some Mercedes can look busy and bossy and a little too full of themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • The first was an otherwise harmonious main course of rump of lamb with couscous, tapenade and roasted tomatoes, not enhanced by what tasted like a seasoning of citrus oil with a bossy, lemon verbena flavour.
  • a bossy way of ordering others around
  • They are always bossy and try to control you every second.
  • She also lets the bossy diet doctors get to work on her lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
  • She remembers being a rather bossy little girl.
  • Especially with Thoreau, snippets can feel sententious or bossy or crabby, and the Journal isn't. A Different Stripe:
  • The stereotype of a lonely, spoiled, bossy and maladjusted only child dates back to 1896, when an American psychologist named Granville Stanley Hall did a research paper on the subject.
  • Why should people not have the right to keep their own money and spend it how they see fit, instead of having a nanny State, bossyboots Government tax workers into oblivion?
  • First Impression: Lucinda is described as a bossy know-it-all who demands to know everything about everyone. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
  • Self-assertion and a desire for autonomy are important components of genuine citizenship, as is a distrust of bossy authority.
  • He also lets me get away with being a bit bossy. The Sun
  • Even if the rescuer is a great, overmuscled, bossy, selfish oaf. Iraqis Embrace Democracy. Do We?
  • She also lets the bossy diet doctors get to work on her lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
  • But, if you speak too loudly, you may be perceived as overbearing, bossy aa braggart.
  • I was quite bossy and noisy when it came to music but away from that I was quiet and studious. The Sun
  • The overwhelming urge to pass on our cultural DNA perhaps explains why we can be quite so bossy. Times, Sunday Times
  • He's bossy with his teachers and likes to tell people what to do. The Sun
  • Mars aligns with the moon and you will be strong without being bossy. The Sun
  • Fergus is an affectionate, bossy and extremely stubborn cat, but he's also the most doglike cat I've ever known.
  • He initially found her a bit bossy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The doctor who called me bossy last week said I was doubly bossy today!
  • Sure, she could be a rude, obnoxious, pushy, bossy woman most of the time, but I also had to admit that she had the heart of a lion.
  • A bossy friend plays matchmaker. The Sun
  • Tributes pour in thick and fast from Lapotaire: ‘She was completely in charge of the crew without being bossy.’
  • But I guess it's been a while since my last visit to the eateries, because when did Tea & Sympathy et al becoming the cranky bossyboots of Greenwich Avenue? Tea & Zero Sympathy
  • They became bossy , uncooperative and hostile in their efforts to ward off depression.
  • I'm bossy, and that's why I want to be a producer.
  • It's time to let that bossy friend matchmake. The Sun
  • Jewel and Corvi were with Skan; Gesten mostly served (and lectured) Amberdrake these days, but he often stuck his bossy little snout into Skandranon's quarters to make certain that Jewel and Corvi were 'doing things right by the old bird. The White Gryphon
  • She remembers being a rather bossy little girl.
  • After sitting through the tedious mutualisation vote, he was dragooned by the bossy PR woman from during the question time session for group managing director.
  • He's bossy with his teachers and likes to tell people what to do. The Sun
  • She remembers being a rather bossy little girl.
  • His cocky and bossy attitude was not one she liked, but she did go over for Rolandon's sake.
  • Socially she could be bossy and unperceptive, but also extremely hospitable and generous in relation to friends and family.
  • One ex-housemate, who did not want to be named, described him as a man who was difficult to get along with, very bossy and ‘imposing’.
  • This also comes through in parliamentary debate, where her style has been criticised as somewhat bossy—despite her complaint that it is a pity the chamber has not allowed more space for cross-party agreement.
  • She turned me off with her bossy manner.
  • However, they are often described as bossy, spoiled and lonely, reports the Globe and Mail. Medindia Health News
  • His father leaves him a cat in his will and the cat proves to be just as bossy as everyone else.
  • Vermilion-finned and with eyes of bossy gold, the tunnies went by in shoals, but he heeded them not. The Fisherman and His Soul
  • He must learn to live without a man who has been friend, mentor and general bossyboots.
  • I'm trying to be the insurance policy in midfield and be a little bit bossy. Times, Sunday Times
  • I came to the conclusion the other night, on the way home, that many of these pushy, stressed out, bossy drivers were more afraid of losing face, being 'outdone', than they were of death or of bashing up other people's cars as well as their own. Malaysia independent news
  • Nobody likes a control freak, so stop being a bossyboots and let things be.
  • He also lets me get away with being a bit bossy. The Sun
  • Bossy was resistant to such analyses, which he suspected of reductivism. The Times Literary Supplement
  • If your child seems cranky, irritable, bossy, or just plain unhappy after eating any of the myriad foods that contain colorings, preservatives like sodium benzoate, or other additives, consider changing your shopping habits. Duh pookie
  • I have never seen one so close before, and it looks so bold, and bossy.
  • In a world filled with bossyboots barging about and ego heat approaching nuclear intensity, appoint yourself your only boss.
  • A thin, tall woman with a bossy face was giving orders to other girls as they took plates to the different tables.
  • She is unhappy, bossy, meddlesome, and possessive.
  • As it turns out, a very similar gene, Atonal homolog 1, controls the development secretory cells in the lining of the colon in both humans and mice — and, as Bossyut and his team discovered, inactivating Atoh1 in mice triggers the onset of colon cancer. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The diminutive Tory bossyboots has only gone and commissioned a portrait and fancy collage - sorry, coat of arms - at a cost of £37,000. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Someone should slap me but I think it's minor retribution for her unnecessarily autocratic, bossy tendencies that once again reared up yesterday.
  • She remembers being a rather bossy little girl.
  • It was obvious in the pride Jyller had and her bossy nature at ordering the maids around.
  • Little girls are called bossy," she told the audience on Jan. 27. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • ‘I like organising and I am fairly bossy,’ says the mum-of-two.
  • They will often be bossy with carers and show levels of assertion that most children generally do not.
  • We are invited to join Cinders and the loveable Buttons as they take on two very ugly sisters and a bossy stepmother and win, with a little help from a Fairy Godmother and a lot of magic.
  • The independent Miss Blythe, whom a certain clique of Junior Red Cross girls accused of being domineering and "bossy," was thoroughly cowed. Rilla of Ingleside
  • Her father left and her mother worked all the time, so Joey decided to become man of the house and take on an authoritarian and bossy role.
  • He has to compete in a fierce job market, but he can't act too bossy or self-confident. Where Have The Good Men Gone?
  • I am a little bossy! The Sun
  • I was quite bossy and noisy when it came to music but away from that I was quiet and studious. The Sun
  • The host said: 'The house are finding her a bit bossy. The Sun
  • He initially found her a bit bossy. Times, Sunday Times
  • She has a fondness for rascally men, a distaste for bossy wives, and a sympathy for anyone who leads with the heart instead of the brain.
  • Bossy people are often self-doubting underneath. The Sun
  • She's bossy too but I was so glad she was there, even though none of the news was good.
  • Witter: You seem quite bossy. Times, Sunday Times
  • This know-all, bossyboots Government has said that people should not have the money, and that they must have a holiday.
  • Albert lives with his domineering, bossy, bullying, unhappy, horrible mother.
  • The bloodcurdling ululation as the master of Loxley Hall tumbled from the roof of his stately pile was the dying falsetto of the rural gentry being ousted by bossyboots New Labour values. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • I'd argue being bossy turned out rather well for these women. The Sun
  • WHAT'S big, blue, bossy and turns up uninvited? The Sun
  • I'd argue being bossy turned out rather well for these women. The Sun
  • I know, bossyboots, but food is their one comfort and distraction. SEA MUSIC
  • He wants to be seen as less bossy and high-handed.
  • I'm trying to be the insurance policy in midfield and be a little bit bossy. Times, Sunday Times
  • She also lets the bossy diet doctors get to work on her lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some Mercedes can look busy and bossy and a little too full of themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • A person who knows how to take charge and organise others can also be bossy and dictatorial.
  • Produce very bossy chocolate bars that will order the eater to do ten press ups between each bite.
  • If you start the day single, that soon changes when a bossy but smart friend decides to matchmake for you. The Sun
  • I was quite bossy and noisy when it came to music but away from that I was quiet and studious. The Sun
  • She acts like she owns the place, ie is very bossy.
  • Witter: You seem quite bossy. Times, Sunday Times
  • They became bossy , uncooperative and hostile in their efforts to ward off depression.
  • Maybe the broadcasting experience honed her writers' voice - one that was chiding, enthusiastic, slangy, argumentative, and sometimes bossy.
  • She does sometimes come across as a bit bossy and up herself. The Sun
  • How could she be attracted to such a rude, egotistical, high-handed, bossy man like him?
  • Bossy and blabby, he gives his tribemates eye strain from all the eye-rolling, and they're presumably not even privy to his "male lion" growl shtick. Matt's TV Week in Review
  • Her mother, inclined to be bossy when affluent, had by then turned into a snivelling frump, endlessly whining about `the good old days". LAST SHOT
  • I am a little bossy! The Sun
  • I guess short, fat, funny, frank, big-mouthed, occasionally brilliant and always bossy broads gave off the wrong vibes. Myra Chanin: Mimi Alford's Hymen Sacrificed on the Altar of History
  • How could she be attracted to such a rude, egotistical, high-handed, bossy man like him?
  • He's very demonstrative and very in charge but he's very bossy, too.
  • Plus the other kitten is a bit of a bossyboots...he`d have been great with his equally bossy brother, but our two are a bit more laid back. Archive 2006-07-01
  • Vigil-aunties," read one headline, referring to the South Asian term "aunty" for older, bossy and often judgmental women. NYT > Home Page
  • It is a model strictly for people who are into hierarchical societies with bossy elites who like to display their power.
  • The overwhelming urge to pass on our cultural DNA perhaps explains why we can be quite so bossy. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think you are too bossy, chum.
  • Following Khan's program, one headline in a local paper called the host and the other women who appeared on the show "Vigil-aunties," referring to the South Asian term "aunty" for a bossy older woman. Www.startribune.com
  • Mars aligns with the moon and you will be strong without being bossy. The Sun
  • The host said: 'The house are finding her a bit bossy. The Sun
  • And like similar reports from other bodies who handpick the experts they want to give the answers they want, its membership also highlights how an elite of dubious university departments, political charities, so-called not for profit organisations, human rights lawyers, think tanks and public sector bossyboots provides an intellectual underpinning for New Labour - courtesy of government grants and contracts which border on the corrupt. Don't Lock Him Up - He's Only 22 !

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