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hec·tor·ing
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hectoringadjective
That hectors; intimidating or domineering.
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Hectoring
of Hector
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hectoring in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hectoring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of hectoring in a Sentence
Surely no arbiter in their right mind could have let such hectoring, cultural studies-sanctioned guff slip through the net?
The race card is not the only one of the left's go-to weapons of choice against an America they've grown to despise, but it's also a tool of distraction from their myriad policy failures, the fact is, for decades now, Democrats have spectacularly failed — failed the very people they claim to be helping with all this racial hectoring.
Faithful: What! why he (Shame) objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscious was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie himself up from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times.”
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