Definition of "brow-beating" [brow-beating]

• Present participle of brow-beat. (verb)

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• "The image of Emanuel that the media loves to gild -- the ruthless, foul-mouthed insider raising millions, whispering into the ears of powerful friends, brow-beating cringing underlings and anyone unfortunate enough to get in his way -- is even more common now than it was then."
• "It's just this toughness in the face of constant brow-beating and mud-slinging that may, in fact, be the real "experience" she has gleaned from being at the center of the first Clinton White House for so many years."
• "I have no doubt that come September, or at the latest October, we'll be in a lather like everyone else, fretting over SAT, or in Gracie's case ACT, scores, making her brag sheet sing and brow-beating her into believing that her destiny hinges on raising her French grade to an A- from a B+."