Such a person is usually hectoring towards his inferiors and servile to those above him.
The next moment the man at the verandah was caught up in the full blast of the foreman's half-savage and wholly hectoring protest.
But even while these thoughts passed swiftly through his brain the bullying, hectoring tones of Jake's voice came to him.
Very likely he thought nothing of it, always having been a boy of a hectoring and unruly sort.
And I thought, moreover, that at the day of doom, we shall not be doomed to death or life, according to the hectoring spirits of the world, but according to the wisdom and law of the Highest.
Such hectoring is usually the preserve of well-heeled bureaucrats, driving utility vehicles and banging away at wireless laptops.
Corruption pervades daily life even in the prim and often hectoring countries of the West.
The hectoring targeted the lack of good governance among Russia's corporations and public administration alike.
And then she found herself wondering whether he would have been so hectoring if she had been--and brought herself up again with an indignant start.
He did this moreover in so offensive a manner, hectoring here and hectoring there, that I could barely restrain myself from parading him on the stretch of turf behind the thorn hedge that fenced in the enclosure to the hovel.
The hectoring nature of the man was caught in the passion of the moment, and his innate brutality must find an object upon which to vent itself.
He possessed all the dominating personality of his race, all the hectoring brutality of his fellow-Prussians.
Yet you think it is for you to come hectoring here, upbraiding us for a situation that is just the result of your own ineptitude.
Scorn of that lie--as he conceived it--rang in the heavy, hectoring voice.
It needed little to wake fresh storms in his breast and he criticised Clement's reticence on the subject of his engagement in so dictatorial and hectoring a manner that the elder man quickly became incensed.
John's aggressive and hectoring manner spoke volubly of his own lack of ease.
Cassidy shoved his hands in his pockets and with a bullying, hectoring air pushed his face, with the lower jaw undershot, into the suspect's face.
Having delivered himself of his threat, he assumed the hectoring air which the moral support of his companions afforded him.
It was his blank acceptance of the brakeman's hectoring which had so encouraged that individual.
His orders were so sharp and fierce that I found myself obeying them directly, and went on baling while Bob whimpered, and Bigley kept on hectoring over us, as I ladled out a little water now and then.
We had escaped: we were safe; Bob was making himself ridiculously comic by his hectoring brag, and all we wanted to do was to laugh.
When you get to the other and sensible point where you want to be out of here, and out right, with nobody chasing and hectoring you, you and I will do business on the fifty-fifty basis.
Creede, and then, flashing his teeth in a hectoring laugh, he put spurs to his horse and went thundering after his fellows.
He laughed as Swope struck out at him, and continued his hectoring banter.
Derby's inquiry was plainly merely a hectoring of Russell for his quick shift from the position taken a month earlier.
The news was at once made public, calling out from the Times a hectoring editorial on the folly of the South in demanding recognition before it had won it[1114].
Mrs. Popkins had sunk into a sleep; the young ladies were reading the last works of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and the dandy was hectoring the postilions from the coach box.
But the foot of the hectoring little foreigner slipped, or he stumbled owing to some slight inequality of the ground.
Crows are always hectoring owls and 'coons whenever they happen to spy one out by day.
Halstead began hectoring me that forenoon concerning my adventure, and nicknamed me "the great bear hunter.
The lake wind was fiercely hectoring the bare elm-trees before the house, and the electric globes registered their tortures on the wide reach of the curving roadway.
Charles seemed to resent this somewhat hectoring and school-master-like tone.
Long he looked at it and silently, and quickly in his mind the conviction grew that he must climb quite completely down from his hectoring attitude.
