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bully English

Meaning bully meaning

What does bully mean?
Definitions in simple English

bully Noun

— A bully is a mean or nasty person. The bully kicked me in the leg today. I was called nasty names by the bully at school yesterday. — A bully is a hired thug. — Bully is bully beef.

bully Verb

— If you bully someone, you are mean or nasty and you act aggressively towards them. I bullied the other boy today by hitting him in the arm.

bully Adjective

— Something that is bully is very good. The weather today is bully!

bully

— noun a cruel and brutal fellow — adjective (= great, neat, smashing) very good he did a bully job a neat sports car had a great time at the party you look simply smashing — noun a hired thug — verb (= browbeat) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate — verb be bossy towards Her big brother always bullied her when she was young

Synonyms bully synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as bully?

bully English » English

browbeat intimidate hector ruffian harass tease persecute tyrannize menace threaten squabbler pressure oppress force coerce annoy terrorize smashing peachy hooligan great cow compel blusterer yobo swagger strong-arm slap-up push around nifty groovy domineer dandy corking bulldoze boss around bluster bang-up yobbo yob trouble-maker tough torture torment teaser swell swashbuckler spiffing rowdy roughneck

Topics bully topics

What do people use bully to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Compel
Language and thought Want Influence

Threaten
Social behavior Law Justice

Oppress
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral Mature in behavior

Immature in behavior
Social behavior Law Justice

Act harshly
Social behavior Conflict

Fight

Conjugation bully conjugation

How do you conjugate bully?

bully · verb

Examples bully examples

How do I use bully in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I'm not a bully.
Tom loves to bully younger students.
Tom's a bully, just like John is.
You were a bully in high school.
Pick on somebody your own size, you bully.
I saw some girls bully her.
Go and beat up that bully.
He just loves to bully people.
Tom is a bully.

Movie subtitles

When they move to the next town, they'd just bully the kids there.
LET GO OF ME, YOU BULLY!
You big bully.
You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully?
I don't bully. I just handled the man.
Don't let him bully you.
Listen, you big bully, you can't do this to me.
Just because you were bigger than me, you thought you could bully.
All right, you big bully.
How could I bully you?
They often send people to look for you, and bully me.
You black-hearted bully.
Stop being a bully.
Big bully.
Let go, you bully!
You can't bully him.
Try to bully me, I'll lick you the best day you ever had.
Self-opinionated bully I ever saw or heard of.
Well, there's Bully Boy. that's LadyJane, and there's Steamboat.
You bully.
That's bully! Just bully!
Let go, you! Oh, you! You bully you!
You bully you.!
He's an intelligent guy, not like this big bully!
Bully?
Blame this big bully here.
Don't you dare lay a hand on him, you overgrown bully.
You're a reckless bully. Your words mean nothing to me.
I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string I love the lovely bully.

News and current affairs

Once they realize they can't bully the ECB into unwanted and self-destructive interest rate cuts, EU leaders actually might summon up the will to lead-which is, after all, what they have been elected to do.
During the last half-century, America has been a reasonably good steward of international stability - a kind of benign bully operating in the collective interest.
If China becomes a bully in the Asia-Pacific region, other countries will join the US to confront it.
One year ago, the US tried to bully the world into supporting an unprovoked war, claiming that anybody who didn't believe in Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was either a fool or an accomplice of terrorists.
The Germans did but the Japanese did not, infuriating the US Treasury Secretary, who tried his best to bully Japan.
Turkey's arrival as a regional power is different in that its democratic structures make an active peacemaker, not a local bully.
Of course, our movement was created out of opposition: opposition to corruption, opposition to surrendering our national independence, opposition to the rule of the bully.
So the more a Western government allows its policemen to humiliate and bully Muslims in the name of security, the more ISIS is likely to win European recruits.
Of course, we now know that a diet of bully beef is likely to result in hardening of the arteries, whereas the vegetable-centered Mediterranean diet is much better for human health.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah has been trying to bully its more moderate Sunni Muslim, Christian, and Druze rivals into submission.
Unless Americans see the images and narratives that shape how others see us, the US will not be able to overcome its reputation as the world's half-blind bully.
Kim's hope must be that, by showing off his nuclear arsenal, he can bully the US, Japan, and South Korea into helping him to resolve some of his regime's domestic crises.
If the proximity talks are replaced with direct talks in which the US is not physically inside the negotiating room, there is no guarantee that the stronger partner will not try to bully the weaker one.
If Putin is able to portray his attack on Ukraine as a success, Russia will continue to bully and posture on the international stage.
The US is perceived as a giant bully throwing its weight around.
There is little doubt that the US, like all great powers, has embarked on foolish wars and acted like a bully, especially toward nations in its own hemisphere.
The results were then regularly used behind the scenes to bully, intimidate, and coerce targets.
Russia has reminded the world that it is possible to bully one's neighbors and steal their territory using brute force; but, in a globalized, multi-polar system, this alone will not be enough to rally other countries to its cause.

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