How To Use Bully In A Sentence
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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
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A favorite uncle provided pointers on pugilistic defenses against bullies - namely her father, who was the first regular bully in her life.
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Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
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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.
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Instead, she let the bully go unchallenged.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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!
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OVER the past few weeks, the nation seems to have reached a general consensus about bullying.
The Sun
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He called the case disturbing and said it underscores the pervasiveness of cyberbullying.
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It's all well and good for some to say that it's wrong for children to be advised to hit back, but I'm afraid I'd rather my son or daughter protected themselves against a pasting from a bully rather than wait for a teacher to come to their aid.
Crib sheet 19.10.10
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All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with.
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There is also hassling and teasing and good-natured joshing that to an adult looks like vicious bullying but to a child is something different.
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He cited the cases of a girl committing suicide after continued cyber-bullying and harassments and an online suicide pact among youth thwarted by South Korean police.
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At exactly eleven, the center forwards, Blossom and Veronica, began the bully-off.
A Popular Schoolgirl
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Only in the movies does badass bullying expose conspiracies rather than recruit new conspirators to the cause.
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Don't let anyone bully you into doing something you don't want to do.
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Yesterday we got not a nudge but a forceful shove from a man who is supremely confident in his bully pulpit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Patients went hungry and thirsty and without medication and there was a lot of awful bullying of patients and relatives going on.
The Sun
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Yet he recognized that he needed active assistants to break through the lines of bureaucratic retrenchment, and he often used plenipotentiaries to investigate, control, and bully on his behalf.
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He once suggested that my brother handle a bully by puffing up his chest and announcing, ‘If you come near me, I'll expectorate in your countenance.’
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His message is that nobody can get a wage rise unless they accept less time with their family and friends, longer hours at work, and endless bullying from jumped-up managers.
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Her main strength is her hypocrisy, which she uses to bully the other teams into giving up luxuries that she herself uses daily.
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My friends poke fun at me by calling me a bully.
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The girl's afore-mentioned burden - a phenomenon - had been perpetually exacerbated by Carl's boorish, bullying behaviour towards her.
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You've no right to burst in here, making all these accusations and bullying an old man.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
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Christine, the play's bullying main character, wouldn't last a minute in the real world.
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If that status is diminished, so too will be the ability of US regulators to bully foreign banks.
Times, Sunday Times
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He talked about how the alpha male chimp tends to have one of two models of leadership, one being a bullying model and the other being a populist leader model.
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But I don't respond well to threats, and I was not going to let this schoolyard bully intimidate me.
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MySpace issued a statement saying it "does not tolerate cyberbullying" and was cooperating fully with the US attorney.
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Other substitutions included “embrace” for “tackle,” “blucher” for “slush buster,”* “muggings” for “hog wash,” “fearful” for “rough,” “wickedest” for “vilest,” “leer” for “slobber,” “jolly” for “bully,” and “swindle” for “humbug.”
Mark Twain
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It was a classic of interrogation: first the bully, then the kind one who offers sympathy.
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It was on that vacation that Roosevelt coined the term "bully pulpit" and brushed aside concerns about his vacation safety so soon after his predecessor was assassinated.
Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
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But when it comes to existing customers of companies like the state-owned Citizens Property Insurance, it's hard to imagine what good can come of 'cajoling' from Gallagher's "bully pulpit.
Archive 2005-03-01
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My parents were also older, which marked me out for bullying, both physical and verbal.
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Also, they have never partaken in the demographic bullying which is seeing to it that the streets of Britain are the subject of a creeping - more of a brisk walk actually - colonisation aka multiculturalism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He has been variously described as a hero, a genius and a bully.
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You can find dozens more by searching "bullyboy" on the site.
News Hounds
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I got hit as well, and have been unsure whether or not to post about it on my own site as I don't really want to give the thuggish bullyboy in question any free press...but seeing how you handled it I think I might've made a mistake.
Control
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If tinies, I am a bully, if grown-ups a statistic.
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Dr Muffett stressed that he was opposed to bullying in schools and that action would be taken to stamp it out.
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Many young soldiers desert or go Awol after mistreatment and bullying by their superiors or colleagues.
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Besides, I understand that every forecastle has its bully, or group of bullies; so this is merely a forecastle matter and no concern of the afterguard.
CHAPTER XVII
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You are a coward and a bully.
Times, Sunday Times
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Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace.
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Technology-based bullying would be particularly damaging to victims because online harassers can post pictures or videos anonymously and to large audiences.
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If the problems are a result of bullying at school, meetings may be held with school staff, the pupil and the support worker.
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He represented himself as a hard - working, self - made small businessman victimized by mindless, bullying bureaucracy.
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It's natural to react with disbelief if your child is accused of bullying.
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It is they who make her undergo the discomforts or miseries of what we call conventional life or bully her into exile or death.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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It came to him curiously that it was his destiny ever to stand on this high place, looking down on unending hordes of black trouble that required control, bullying, and cajolery.
Chapter 11
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Backwardness will leave us vulnerable to bullying.
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The slogans attack America's involvement in Indo-China and support of Zionism, as well as American and Soviet "aggression, control, interference, and bullying".
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Of course the main section of bullying would have to be physical hurt of others.
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They said a gang called the "Asian Invasion" was behind a campaign of bullying at the school, and demanded security guards to protect pupils. "and that" Patrick said a fight had been arranged after Henry "barged" into a group of Asian boys in a school corridor.
Archive 2008-01-01
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County ambulance service chiefs were censured for bullying.
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Burying it all under a thick shell of bluster, bullying, slavish adherence to protocol and discipline.
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The warning came as MPs published a report highlighting serious failings in the way schools tackle bullying.
The Sun
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They should not minimize, rationalize, or explain the bullying away.
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He was behaving like a potentially dangerous bully.
The Sun
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We recall the time at school when our treasured anthology of love poetry was seized by the class bully.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He had the reputation of being a bully and arrogant but only his intolerance of sham made him feared.
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Ephram is despondent when he is disinvited to a party by Amy's popular friends, and Delia struggles with the school bully.
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Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
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They actively discourage charity and contribute to a culture of anxiety and bullying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Long earned the nickname "bus barn bully" by drivers and other transportation employees for what they described as frequent violent outbursts and aggressive behavior.
FortBendNow.com
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We'd vandalise, bully people, shoplift and fight.
The Sun
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Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide (TV series)do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying.
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A loud-mouthed verbal bully who should not be given any position concerning football administration.
The Sun
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She is also the VP of Watermargin and a writer for the Bully Pulpit; this sexy woman - a woman whose interests align with most women everywhere (whether its feminist advocacy or authentic Mexican food) - tells us that she's dedicated to her long-term shorty, Petunia Garcia.
Stories from The Sun
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They do not bully anyone and seem a bit nice.
The Sun
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An obnoxious, ginger-haired bully then accuses Elvis of talking to himself like a weirdo and lays into him.
Weekend Weirdness Review: John Carpenter’s Elvis Starring Kurt Russell | /Film
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What galls me more, I guess, than American fast food culture and all that this entails is the bullying, we're right you're wrong and we'll fight you for it attitude.
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he did a bully job
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The group have frequently used bully-boy tactics.
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Your mum shouldn't let your dad bully her either.
The Sun
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Usually I wouldn't listen because I'm very strong-willed and I like to bully him.
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Just a few months ago we were all lining up to fellate Macmillan for standing up to neighbourhood bully Amazon and now comes the revelation that company reps in a part of the world that basically runs on bribes made bribes in a bid for a textbook contract.
So far to fall…
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To protect themselves from accusations of bullying unfriendliness, these kids are really really nice to everybody all the time.
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It's similar to a kid joining sides with a bully just so the bully doesn't pick on him.
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As a teenager, John was quite portly - yet with a bit of discipline and a lot of bullying, the freshman fatty soon became a sophomore slim.
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He was a shameless toady to those above him and a vicious bully to those below him.
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Since virtually every Berliner is a potential agent waiting for someone to turn and unturn him, Butler is free to roar through bars and bordellos to his heart's delight, bullying and seducing as the mood takes him while the agents fall out of the trees either way, and writing it all off to limitless expenses.
Armageddon Now?
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The creature bellowed a seeming laugh at the pitiful maneuver, gnashing its wicked teeth and bullying its fiery body in such a way as to corner Galafar from getting away, coiling its body all around him.
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The bully we mentioned in number 2, who has grown up a lot and become mates with my brother, notices this, and gives the lad a talking-to, and let's be honest, a thump.
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The same goes for any bully: A racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a transphobe, a disablist, a fat-hater, a xenophobe, a privileged jerk of any stripe who belligerently wields hir privilege like a weapon.
Shakesville
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The featured warbirds were a P - 40 Kittyhawk, a P - 51 Mustang, a Spitfire, a Hudson, a Tiger Moth, a Catalina and a venerable DC - 3 Dakota, of Bully Beef resupply fame.
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TUESDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who "cyberbully" others via the Internet or cell phones are more likely to suffer from both physical and psychiatric troubles, and their victims are at heightened risk, too, a Finnish study finds.
BusinessWeek.com --
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The poems demonstrated a range of feelings and ideas about bullying, from where to go if you are being bullied to how bullies feel.
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MORE than half of youngsters picked on over mental health problems say their pals are the ones who bully them.
The Sun
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And while that makes him a lame duck, he still has his veto pen and his bully pulpit.
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The prisoner faked insanity to avoid confrontation with the jailhouse bully.
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Several people feared putting special schools and mainstream schools on one site would lead to bullying of disabled children.
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This latter process is termed "mobbing," which is distinct from bullying in that it involves a group of people who become increasingly aggressive and increase in size provided they have been told by management that a worker is unwanted, that any reports about the worker are encouraged, and that any adversarial action taken against the worker is acceptable.
Janice Harper: Bullying in the Schoolyard Is Not the Same as Workplace Bullying
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It can only be seen as a professor's contemptible effort to bully a student with whose politics he disagrees.
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That sort resents the 'girl' in the situation because she's getting more attention by being a sexual attractant and not actually 'earning' her place as a TRUE swooner in the manly bully's pack.
Speaking of indescribable stupidity …
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More mobile than ever before, big businesses can bully governments into relieving them of their responsibilities.
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Most foreign opinion saw Britain as the aggressor, an evil Goliath against the David who was pluckily standing up to his bullying.
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Leon looked after him rather disconsolately, as though at a loss to understand what could have happened to take all the fight and "bumptiousness" out of the former bully.
The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey
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Managers bullying staff into fiddling cancer figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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The work was wonderful, but my boss was a bully and a belittler.
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The feat represents his strength in overcoming the bullying he endured as a child.
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Students with Asperger syndrome frequently say they are the last to get picked for games and are seen as loners, making them more isolated and susceptible to bullying.
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The military, masochism, bullyism, a persecution complex, mindless jingoism ... hey, that sounds like somebody else we know!
Goliath was faking
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He could return a blow as fast as any bully, a word as loudly as any fishwife in Westminster.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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After all a bully is somewhat similar to a stalker, they follow you, taunt you, frighten you.
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And now he can't protect himself – sounds like he wants to continue his "school yard bully" theater and not be held acountable for his actions – still!
Cheney's Secret Service protection extended
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Sarah Palin acted like a bully during the campaign and now she is acting like a coward.
Palin hits back at 'malicious' photo
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Does she not have the same right as the other councillors to offer fresh ideas, without fear of needless, unconstructive and childish bullying?
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Competition is amoral, ruthless and cruel - moral principles and ethical standards are compromised. And it is a civilized way of bullying the weak, the underprivileged and the poor. Dr T.P.Chia
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Why are they bullyragging Russia but not China?
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This had been too halcyon a day to clutter up the memory of it with some backwoods bully's melodramatic bellowings.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Nick Stahl does a good job portraying Bobby as a vicious, detestable bully (with perhaps just a hint of reptilian charisma).
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Leave him alone, you big bully!
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His confidence and selfesteem had been eroded over a long period of time by the bullying behaviour he experienced in secondary education.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's hard to imagine how a drunk bully of a father is likely to remember a law that bans smacking.
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It stinks to high heaven that a butt-muffin playground bully such as Blankenship has the right to, in effect, murder people for the sake of profit.
Think Progress » Coal disaster company Massey Energy denied time off for miners to attend their friends’ funerals.
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He had bullyragged a fair sized fortune out of the manufacturing business before he was 35.
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
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The media should focus more attention on how to improve the taxpayer-financed public school system and how to reduce bullying and schoolyard violence.
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But simply accept bullying, tug our forelocks and suck it up?
Archive 2009-07-01
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‘Be it known to all true-hearted Scotsmen that England is now turned bully,’ wrote one man.
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There's often a conspiracy of silence surrounding bullying in schools.
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Yet in this small act of bullying self-aggrandisement, we get the measure of the man.
Times, Sunday Times
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He refuses to answer her question and instead turns the tables by saying she is bullying him, waxing bitchier and bitchier ("I mean, you are like twice my age") (cut to Zanna blanching and making big eyes at the camera).
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway #11, "Quoth The Raven: Nevermore"
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The 400 porters, domestics, laundry and catering workers are the latest group of health workers to take on the low pay, bullying and exploitation of their private contractor bosses.
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That’s what bothered me, really: the commenters seem to feel that bullying someone offstage is “speech” and not “force”, simply because they were shouting at the time.
Surely Lucy Won’t Yank the Football Away This Time!
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She stirs up antagonism, bullying members of other departments in the guise of working on my behalf.
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Some fair-minded Kalenjin see the court as the best hope of reining in the power of bullying tribal leaders.
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He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent.
CHAPTER XI
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They are a tight-knit community with people of status at the helm, but even their best efforts cannot control the lunatic, bullying, and loutish few.
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Competition is amoral, ruthless and cruel - moral principles and ethical standards are compromised. And it is a civilized way of bullying the weak, the underprivileged and the poor. Dr T.P.Chia
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And oftentimes, I talk to those who engage in cyberbullying behaviors, and they genuinely didn't realize the harm that would come from them posting certain information online.
The Rise In Cyberbullying
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He said that the press had misrepresented him as arrogant and bullying.
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It's been used not only for fraud, but to bully people and give them a bad name.
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He is at the same time bullying and wheedling, but will, when cornered, reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course.
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I scarcely know whether The Fighting Sheeney made more of a nuisance of himself during his decumbiture or during the period which followed it -- which period houses an astonishing number of fights, rows, bullyings, etc.
The Enormous Room
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High schools are remaking yearbooks to more accurately reflect student populations amid larger societal concerns about bullying, peer pressure, and self-esteem.
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Boman Irani plays the bully encroacher in his own characteristic style.
Khosla ka Ghosla
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And remember this man is not only a thug, a bully, and a promoter of terrorism, he is also an thief and embezzler on a large scale.
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To bully, both players simultaneously strike first the ground then each other's stick over the ball.
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The idea of the bully fits neatly with one of the most grotesquely enduring of all anti-American beliefs: that Americans are all dumb Yanks.
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Lightning fizzed majestically just on cue behind her spiked crown; briefly illuminating the symbolic relic of a world now lost to the seizing hand of bullying big businesses and tactless political tyrants.
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A review into claims of a culture of bullying was launched, with findings due soon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Patients went hungry and thirsty and without medication and there was a lot of awful bullying of patients and relatives going on.
The Sun
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Parents and schools must emphasise the importance of mutual respect and tolerance and warn of the damage bullying can do.
Times, Sunday Times
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I find it humorous that anyone would defend some ribbing of the OS Marketshare "bully", particularly since Easter Eggs in programming is a longstanding tradition.
Smug Ugly - Anil Dash
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We have to recognise that not only is bullying ruining people's lives, it is costing the UK economy millions every year in tribunal payments, legal fees and wasted talent
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It is understood the bully is being made to repay all the money and will be disciplined.
The Sun
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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
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Nationally we know that around 22 % of secondary school pupils have suffered cyberbullying, but until now we did not know younger age groups were also seriously affected.
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Several British convoys fell into our hands, but the food we found on them consisted usually of bully-beef and "clinkers," things which only dire necessity drove us Boers to eat.
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
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His thought is that the bully pulpit of the premiership, and its tools of influence, can be used to encourage individuals to behave better to each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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But people are still being made to work harder, in worse conditions, with more managerial bullying and in more insecure temporary jobs.
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They are young people accustomed to bullying from superiors.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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If the bully does not have an audience, there is no stage for performing.
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In a pale grey suit and open-neck white shirt, Green revels in his persona as an old-school jetsetter, a bon vivant. - though he has been called combative businessman, even a bully.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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In imperial literature British rule meant law and British force signified the protection of the weak against a barbarous bully.
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She is calling for state and federal leaders to push for more action against cyberbullying.
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It was a bit like watching one of your best friends being slowly beaten up by the school bully.
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Steffan Rhodri's Paul is the archetypal Ayckbourn male bully, David Armand as the cuckolded John is all restless, arm-waving energy, and Reece Shearsmith as Colin has the bright-eyed bounciness of the truly insensitive.
Absent Friends - review
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My bullying started on the very first day at school and I was called a snob and posh because I had a different accent to the rest of my classmates.
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Social injustice in the forms of racial and sex discrimination, bullying and oppression of the weak and the poor often get away with impunity. Dr T.P.Chia
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They come from diverse backgrounds but all share stories of bullying.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's how awful I felt when I was a little kid and this bully headbutted me.
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What of the gropes, the bullying, the sadistic humiliations he said he was responsible for?
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The family of a Murray County High "bullycide" victim files a wrongful death suit against the school system.
WDEF News 12 -
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The topic is fuelled by the often negative press that bullying gets in the Press, often the local press which highlights the problem and over-hypes the issues with one-sided articles.
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Nobody would take seriously a big brute of a bully who beat the daylights out of an innocent bystander, and then claimed he was victimized because he scraped his knuckles.
Jeff Schweitzer: The Faux Rage About a False War on Christmas
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Dave Weigel of the Washington Post has accused Sarah Palin of "irresponsible and pathetic bullying" in her quick militance to demonize McGinniss as some sort of sleazy stalker with an eye on the daily activities of her children.
Sarah Palin Erects Border Fence Around Her House (PHOTO)
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Come, now - explain your ingenious little riddle, and don't go on badgering and bullyragging people in this mysterious way.
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She said schools were reminded in 1994 that behaviour and discipline codes should include measures to counter bullying behaviour.
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CBS 'How to Be a Gentleman' 'How to Be a Gentleman' CBS Andrew, a well-mannered magazine columnist, recruits an old high-school bully to teach him how to be a "real" man.
A New Generation of TV Wimps
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We have rigged up a sun shelter and have just dined, our "scoff" (Kaffir for "grub") being bread and bully beef.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
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The project should raise general awareness about bullying.
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Many a bunch of vigilante bully-boys would have worked them over into lumps of fillet steak, twitching and staining the carpet.
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They may be regarded by their fellow pupils as arrogant and over-ambitious, and be subjected, possibly, to snide remarks and even bullying.
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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
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The purpose of the bullying audit was explained and their participation in a confidential and discreet interview was invited.
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The old Method bruiser plays a former military man who blinded himself in a silly prank but remains an arrogant bully.
Times, Sunday Times
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The incompetence, the lies, the bullying, the cynicism, the cover-ups.
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He would fight with me over video games and bully me when my parents weren't around, threatening to do worse things if I tattled on him.
Twenty-three-year-olds Shouldn't Be Writing Memoirs
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They walked with their webbing packed full of ammunition and in their haversacks they carried five days' bully beef and biscuits and a minimum of personal gear.
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But McVay's bullying haunts him, and he fantasizes revenge.
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He was hellbent for revenge after the bully beat up his brother.
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She said that bullying is not just isolated to schools or youngsters but can be seen in society.
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Dr Muffett stressed that he was opposed to bullying in schools and that action would be taken to stamp it out.
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She slowly regained her weight and the bullying stopped when she left school for college.
The Sun
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She said Luke had become withdrawn since the bullying, preferring to stay indoors, sleeping till late in the afternoon and wetting the bed regularly.
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So the notion that propaganda is bad but free speech is good is a carefully contrived nonsense designed to allow the IOC to kowtow to the bullyboy Chinese Communists.
Archive 2008-04-06
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Again, the world is stood on its head: siding with the United States, the global bully, demonstrates strength.
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Some 30 % of exclusions were for bullying, and a further 14.9 % for verbal abuse.
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It was the aid of Russia which enabled her to overthrow the great Napoleon, and now she permits the little Napoleon to bully her into a war with Russia that he may bedizen his name with the glory of a conflict with the conqueror of his illustrious kinsman.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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Through our cyberbullying campaign we will continue the push to help stamp it out for good.
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He might've been a bully, but he was also a genius.
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He could alternately bully and charm people.
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It's kind of fun to see Hill and Bill having to claw their way to the finish line, while trying to bully all her adversarie such as Obama (her own fellow surrogate's and of course the boyPresident himself billyboy).
Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates
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Damn you! I'm not going to let you bully me.
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He endured years of senseless, unfounded, unstopped bullying, knowing he was too physically weak to defeat his enemies, yet he tried.
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My husband has always been a very big drinker and is controlling and bullying.
The Sun
