Adjective : domineering parents. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : The castle domineers the town. From Dictionary.com.
Similarly, 'to domineer' is a verb, and the word domineering comes from that. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
He has been described as the domineering disciplinarian who set her straight. From Wordnik.com. [FOXNews.com] Reference
Footsteps on Clouds: Personal: On Blogging and the word 'domineering'. From Wordnik.com. [Personal: On Blogging and the word 'domineering'] Reference
Chris Matthews will find Michelle Obama just a bit "domineering," you know?. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Blumenthal Joins Hillary Campaign] Reference
Yet people on TV will call you "domineering" because you're an outspoken woman. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Wilson: Our Children Are Watching] Reference
An intelligent, take-charge, in-your-face, dominant not "domineering" man is not sexist. From Wordnik.com. [A movement to bring back the 'man's man'] Reference
Actually, I don't know why I get that way sometimes ... "domineering", I guess you can say. From Wordnik.com. [ugotsoul Diary Entry] Reference
But her body-language seems to go beyond that into "domineering" posture, which turns me off without regard to gender or creed. From Wordnik.com. [Weird twitches] Reference
His famous statement after the Six Day War about Jews being a "domineering" people alienated French and American Jews and Gentiles. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
Margit would be busy with housework most of the morning, or in the kitchen, helping Selina -- "domineering,". From Wordnik.com. [Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts] Reference
She wondered whether she had been too domineering. From Wordnik.com. [Born Or Bred?] Reference
Dr. George Hodel was a charismatic but domineering Hollywood physician. From Wordnik.com. [Old Case, New Twist] Reference
The older one, who speaks with a smoker's rasp, is insistent and domineering. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton And The Intern] Reference
'You be quiet, Geoff, and let me tell her, said Alick, in a domineering tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
It was Michelle who came across as the domineering one — the angry black woman. From Wordnik.com. [What Michelle Means to Us] Reference
In the original, Angela Lansbury played the domineering wife of a McCarthyesque senator. From Wordnik.com. [CONSPIRACY REDUX] Reference
He is the great prototype of the domineering and intolerant ecclesiastic all the world over. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth] Reference
Why should these domineering commissioners take the side of capital and fight in its interests?. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Wiegel was a domineering blusterer to his subordinates, but a cringing sycophant to those over him. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
It ranged from his overpowering ego to his domineering and sometimes violent relationships with women. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Away With It] Reference
The transformation in their domineering, sour mother revised her children's memories of their childhoods. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Living] Reference
All the boys respected him, for he certainly was a good teacher, but they did not like his domineering way. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Similarly, Germany's allies rarely fret publicly about the prospect of a domineering Berlin Republic anymore. From Wordnik.com. [City On The Edge] Reference
As he shifted the wheel he heard a cry behind him, and at the same time a hoarse, domineering voice called out. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune] Reference
None of the usual domineering-mother, distant-father theories has been conclusively shown to determine sexuality. From Wordnik.com. [Born Or Bred?] Reference
For example, self-confidence can aid your decision-making but alienate others when you come across as domineering. From Wordnik.com. [Always Rely On A Team, Not Individuals] Reference
For some time past she had been anxious to free herself from Marlborough and the domineering influence of his wife. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
He and his wife, Anne, a former college literature teacher, are regarded as refined and cultivated, not domineering. From Wordnik.com. [His Dark Journey] Reference
Larry is widely acknowledged to be the best farmer around; he's also a domineering father to whom one doesn't talk back. From Wordnik.com. [Reports From The Heartland] Reference
Occasional lapses from petulant, domineering tempers to childish penitence and assurance of future amends greatly relieve. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Headstrong, domineering, having fought his way in a State filled with aristocratic Southerners, from the class of so-called. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Quintanilla is known as a visionary manager but also a domineering man; Selena often had to soothe associates that he insulted. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Murder Trial] Reference
They live in repose, retired from broils abroad, void of avidity to possess more, free from a spirit of domineering over others. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
He held them for the moment only, as a lion-tamer holds his beasts under control -- by fearless domineering assumption of authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
His father, who worked in the oilfields, appears to have been a "Great Santini" figure, a "domineering alcoholic," according to DeLay. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXTERMINATOR] Reference
Although Wood married in 1935, he ended what Nan called a "traumatic nightmare" with that domineering woman through a divorce in 1939. From Wordnik.com. [American Idol] Reference
Its purposes are to encourage social pleasures among its members, and to protect them against the encroachments of domineering managers. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
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