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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Controlling and being in charge
aggrandize
assert your authority
assume
assumption
authoritative
cynical
get the better of someoneidiom
get your hooks into someone/somethingidiom
govern
guiding principle
harness
peremptorily
peremptory
play Godidiom
plenipotentiary
police
slow
tame
wrangle
wrangler

domineering | American Dictionary

domineering
adjective
us/ˌdɑm·əˈnɪər·ɪŋ/
having a strong tendency to try to control other people without taking their feelings into consideration:
a domineering personality

Examples of domineering

domineering
The controlling-punitive behavior is angry and domineering, with attempts to humiliate, embarrass, or reject the parent.
She is a mercenary, brutal, domineering woman, physically a shapeless mountain of flesh.
He was an important local patriarch, and domineering within his household.
But he was not domineering, he never dictated what should be done.
While they saw the settlers' as coercive and domineering, theirs was benign and mutually improving.
Negative relations with parents is measured by five items assessing the extent to which youths find parents to be domineering, overprotective, unsupportive, and demanding.
But another harsh, domineering fanfare and the irruption of the percussion in militaristic rhythms has the music scurrying for the shadows once more.
Domineering bureaucracy had two drawbacks.
Popper was rude, reclusive, high-handed, domineering, unable to bear criticism, and more and more hidebound in his views as he got older.
We do not know the extent, if any, to which the child's being genetically identical would tend to promote a domineering attitude on the part of the parent.
More than 6 feet tall and muscular, he was cast in the mould of a soldier and conveyed a natural air of command, but he was gruff and domineering.
The constructed realm of the head was contentious, fractious, domineering which brooked no dissent; that of the heart experienced love, affection, humanism and therefore was universalist.
There were three cases where, interestingly, fathers who were normally domineering were described as being restrained by the style of the conference and the presence of children.
It is clearly important to avoid reifying static distinctions between a rationalising, domineering and ' de-politicised' development science on the one hand, and a ' traditional ' religious resistance on the other.
Do we want to hobble our few indigenous energy resources and become even more dependent on one or two dominant, and often domineering, external suppliers?
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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