verb
noun
definition
The act of one who hectors, or acts blusteringly.
adjective
definition
That hectors; intimidating or domineering.
Examples of hectoring in a Sentence
In its place, the voice has become chatty, and often loud, arrogant, and hectoring.
Tho her writing is never hectoring or overtly ideological, what she found left her deeply alarmed.
Further, in maintaining that the powers recognized by religion are always superior to man, he leaves unclassed a host of practices that display a bargaining, or even a hectoring, spirit on the part of those addressing them (see Prayer).
Baths, lunch-rooms, restrooms, clubs, lectures, schools and kindergartens have been supplied, and the company has also cultivated domestic pride by offering prizes for the best-kept gardens, &c. From April to July 1901 there was a strike in the already thoroughly unionized factories; complaint was made of the hectoring of union men by a certain foreman, the use in toilet-rooms of towels laundered in non-union shops (the company replied by allowing the men to supply towels themselves), the use on doors of springs not union-made (these were removed by the company), and especially the discharge of four men whom the company refused to reinstate.