hectored
past simple and past participle ofhector
hector
verb[T]
disapprovinguk/ˈhek.tər/us/ˈhek.tɚ/totalkandbehavetowards someone in aloudandunpleasantlyforcefulway,especiallyinorderto get them toactorthinkas youwant
Synonyms
browbeat
bully
strong-armdisapproving
Ways of talking
- beg the questionidiom
- blah
- blether
- blither
- coo
- declaim
- declamatory
- gabble
- loose
- mumble
- pipe
- ramble
- rattle on/away
- stage whisper
- talk trashidiom
- throwyourvoiceidiom
- trash
- trill
- word salad
- yak
Examplesofhectored
hectored
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Someone under arrest awaiting trial is not to be questioned orhectored.
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As men, trade unionists do not like beinghectoredby women.
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Universities are not encouraged in their efforts to increase access to and participation in higher education but regularlyhectoredand condemned for not doing enough.
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Why were wehectoredso much earlier on when we were giving our opinion so firmly to the other place?
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Hehectoredand lectured and told us that we were seeking to interfere, when he is driving a steamroller over the local authorities.
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They will not invest their money to behectoredand lectured on planning agreements and their responsibilities.
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Seldom do we get a good word, seldom does a trade union leader appear on television without beinghectoredby an aggressive interviewer.
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I do not intend to be lectured orhectoredabout the merits or otherwise of the problems of the low incomes that we are discussing.
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It is obviously not right, whoever is being interviewed, that people should behectoredor interrupted.
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I do not want them to behectoredby the authorities trying to enforce the regulations against other people.
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We were lectured andhectoredat the outset about the narrowness of this debate.
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She has described herself as nettled andhectoredby a good dozen obsessions--more, probably.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A woman raised in a single-parent family ishectoredby her dinner host, a married father, who wants to impress upon her the superiority of his domestic arrangements.
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- full approval
- full attention
- fullback
- full backup
- full-backup
- full beam
- full-beam
- full beard
- full benefit
- full-blooded
- full-blooded
- full-blown
- full-blown
- full board
- full-board
- full-bodied
- full-bodied
- full breadth
- full capability
- full capacity
- full circle
- full-circle
- full-circle feedback
- full-circle-feedback
- full citizenship