browbeat

Object

• people: Especially if they intend to use that fact to browbeat other people with their opinions.
• anyone: We have neither the intention nor the capacity to browbeat anyone.
• woman: It is not a very manly thing, Mr. Holmes, to come here and browbeat a woman.

Modifying Another Word

• too: It could easily have become nightmare material: too browbeating, or fussy, or just dull.
• so: The client and their lawyers who were so browbeaten and bullied managed to resist succumbing to such pressure.