Bossy used in a sentence

Bossy in a sentence as an adjective

Of course the same goes for men, and bossy men are just as big a problem.

If I had to guess, I'd bet more people would support banning "*****" than they would "bossy".

It was used to teach the difference between being a a leader, or just, well bossy.

If we want to express this idea positively, we don't say "bossy", we say "like a boss".

"if being called bossy is causing girls to lose leadership skills"... then they aren't leaders anyway.

It's funny but "bully" is more associated with males and "bossy" with females.

> "if being called bossy is causing girls to lose leadership skills..."I don't think that this particular word is the root cause.

Being bossy though is the worst alignment of incentives: power & peer acceptance thru fear vs respect.

So I can imagine "bossy" is used to question the legitimacy of female bosses.

"The latter reading comes across as kind of pedantic and bossy, not to mention unrealistic.

Men are violent and bossy, women are nurturing and caring, let's parade tough on crime and the nuclear family.

The guy was bossy, and basically micromanaged us as we packed his purchases into boxes for shipping, much to our consternation.

Annoying and kind of creepy/bossy: "either reconfirm who you are on demand, even when visiting 'public' pages, or you have to log out of all our services".

It seems that the reason behind not banning "bossy" is that females require this opportunity for leadership development.

Those who were deemed superior became arrogant, bossy and otherwise unpleasant to their inferior classmates.

It's a challenge to the legitimacy of the leadership status of the person it's aimed at, in other words; a real boss can never be "bossy", because they have a legitimate right to boss people around.

>What term would they prefer be used for someone that's acting bossy?Something entirely devoid of meaning so that it could never possibly hurt anyone's feelings for being someone who tells people what to do without leading by example so as to inspire people to do.

While feminists were busy telling the world about the dire need to ban the word “bossy,” the Iraqi parliament was considering the implementation of a new law that would legalize rape, prohibit women leaving home without the permission of their husband, and legalize marriage for 9-year-olds.“If passed, the law will apply to Iraq’s Shia Muslims, the majority of the population.