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domineering

/dom-uh-neer-ing/US // ˌdɒm əˈnɪər ɪŋ //UK // (ˌdɒmɪˈnɪərɪŋ) //

霸气,霸道的,霸道,跋扈的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inclined to rule arbitrarily or despotically; overbearing; tyrannical: domineering parents.

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Examples

  • So, if resources are hard to defend, that guards against domineering inequality.

  • For so many seasons, the loudest, most domineering chefs always seemed to run the kitchen with an iron fist during Restaurant Wars.

  • Elizabeth, a housewife and mother of six, had simply stood up to her domineering husband.

  • Both stereotypes of her as either a dutiful or domineering wife failed to see how she had struggled all her life to forge her own identity as a wife and mother but above all as herself, Ethel.

  • Their next ruse becomes fabricating a resume that gets Estella hired at a department store and, eventually, legitimate work for the domineering designer Baroness, who is impressed by her keen eye.

  • Allison and Cole have lost a child, his family is shady, and his mother domineering.

  • The family shared housing with the ever present and domineering Sara, who rarely had a kind word for her daughter-in-law.

  • Want to be a domineering jerk and take charge of things on the Internet and yell at people who disagree with you?

  • He refused to budge, and Anne retreated further from public view squashed by his bullying and domineering manner.

  • Norm is a symbol of implacable corporate power—preening, surgically perfected, casually domineering.

  • His eyes had retreated deeper into the sockets, and his thick lips, once so firm and domineering, were loose and flabby.

  • The next moment his arms had snatched her up and she was looking up into his steady domineering eyes.

  • Only an abiding sense of humour kept him sometimes from being domineering.

  • I gave you credit for domineering and prejudice, now I see it is malignity.'

  • The other, a middle-aged, domineering man with a powerful face, looked angrily at me as I handed him my dispatch.