browbeaten

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Probably many of the others have just been browbeaten so much lately that they are commenting less.

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intimidated or subjugated

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adjective

intimidated or subjugated

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for browbeaten.

adjective

intimidated or subjugated

See also: cowed, hangdog, intimidated, bullied

Example sentences

Probably many of the others have just been browbeaten so much lately that they are commenting less.

But somehow, the major publishers have been browbeaten into believing that Word is the sine qua non of document production systems.

It is possible that quality of work and willingness to be browbeaten are inversely correlated.

This point-of-view has been browbeaten into submission, but: Those products were made under the heavy influence of Steve Jobs, and it showed.

Such people should be understood and given the distance that allows them to work, not browbeaten into keeping up with the extraverts.

My dad is atheist, and I don't think he was browbeaten into having all three of us...

You're being browbeaten by the gender police, don't bother arguing, its pointless.

He didn’t crumble, succumb, get browbeaten, or anything else.

There are some high quality people who teach, but they are browbeaten so often that it turns the young, dynamic person into a cynical and slightly depressed professional.

I cannot and will not be browbeaten or blackmailed by anyone.

> But somehow, the major publishers have been browbeaten into believing that Word is the sine qua non of document production systems.

And you will be lectured and browbeaten to hell and back if you decline, so I imagine that factors heavily into the popularity of chromosome tests these days.

Quote examples

Of course now that computers are 1.0e+6 times faster than they were when it was developed, it's not as noticeable, and people have been trained (browbeaten) to let things "settle down" before expecting their keyboard events to go to the right window.

It's absurd that some company can buy up and profit from thirty-year-old formerly-abandonware, and that society have been collectively browbeaten into believing in the notion of “““intellectual property””” at all.

Maybe his manager hates him and he is leaving work, "browbeaten and resigned", or maybe he just didn't sleep last night and he is headed to work, "clouds in his mind and lead in his limbs" or whatever.