hector - use in sentences

Object

  • tone: And I have had enough of your hectoring, insulting tone.
  • other: However, there is no point in hectoring others to adopt something that for a variety of reasons is unacceptable to them.

Modifying Another Word

  • never: Tho her writing is never hectoring or overtly ideological, what she found left her deeply alarmed.

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