Meaning of bullyishly | Babel Free

Definitions

In a bullyish manner.

informal

Examples

“A noisy fly with a showy metallic back, a coarse fellow, lighted on the ground and buzzed bullyishly, his insistent voice demanding to be heard although it had only vapid repetitions to make.”

“He delivered her to a cold-faced buff brick apartment house not far from downtown. It had a pinched and pained look, from the way its greater and finer neighbors to either side crowded bullyishly against it.”

“James Silver, Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, speaks of his state the “closed society,” and it is this kind of mentality which has grown bullyishly strong on a menu of hate and negativism, with the grievous result that Mississippi is almost “another country.””

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