[ UK /bˈʊli/ ]
[ US /ˈbʊɫi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a cruel and brutal fellow
  2. a hired thug
VERB
  1. discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
  2. be bossy towards
    Her big brother always bullied her when she was young
ADJECTIVE
  1. very good
    you look simply smashing
    we had a grand old time
    a neat sports car
    had a great time at the party
    he did a bully job
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How To Use bully In A Sentence

  • You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world. Flash For Freedom
  • A favorite uncle provided pointers on pugilistic defenses against bullies - namely her father, who was the first regular bully in her life.
  • Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
  • For all their rough-and-tumble, burly-bully image, I haven't yet met one who doesn't go all moony over a good painting.
  • Instead, she let the bully go unchallenged. Times, Sunday Times
  • He blustered and bullyragged; he had been their boss and he had been fired without cause, he insisted. Joan of Arc of the North Woods
  • 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
  • She opened the back door only to see thrown down on the lawn an empty can of her bully beef and, to make matters worse, an empty tin of her cat's food!
  • OVER the past few weeks, the nation seems to have reached a general consensus about bullying. The Sun
  • He called the case disturbing and said it underscores the pervasiveness of cyberbullying.
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