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tending to exercise control over others in an autocratic manner- Her mother is opinionated and domineering.
- a domineering personality
- Martin was so quietly domineering, so stubbornly persistent—and always so plausible—oh, so plausibleMr. and Mrs. Julius Haldeman -- Dust
- I should think you could be trained into a very good husband—you know, not one of the domineering kind, but one who considered his wife was just as much an individual as himself and just as much a free agent.Jack London -- Adventure
- ...a handsome face with fierce, domineering eyes...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Valley of Fear
- ...the count exercised over him also the ascendancy a strong mind always acquires over a mind less domineering.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- I cannot get on without domineering and tyrannising over someone, but .... there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
- He began speaking in a loud, rather domineering voice.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- 'I shall, soon enough, be put out, though, if anybody tries to domineer it over me: and so I give you notice, master.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- When he came into our alley, he held his head high and spoke in domineering tones.Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl
- She dreaded hearing him speak, because now there was a new tone in his voice: familiar, half-insolent, domineering.Doris Lessing -- The Grass is Singing
- Aziz was friendly and domineering.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- Then there's the domineering Kennedy Airport air traffic controllers ordering the planes around.Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
- She was uninterested in towering, square-jawed men with huge domineering faces, who were to be bred like horses with horse-like women.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- They were both embarrassed, and to relieve her feeling she became harsh and domineering.Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
- All day he lay there listening to the silence of huddled trees with only a domineering black hen for company.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- They say that Glorvina gives herself airs and that Peggy herself is ill tolerably domineering.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish; though that way viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Even now, as he sits there fiddling with some kind of plastic box, he's easily ignored in the presence of his large and domineering companions.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- Her life had gotten bound up with a domineering man, and so she shrank from the challenge her sisters were giving her.Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
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