Words and phrases that have a meaning related to hectoring: (112 results)
Often used in the same context:
haranguing, lecturing, moralizing, blathering, scold, browbeating, prattle, nattering, carping, sneering, blustering, whining, pontificating, berating, ranting, harrumphing, badgering, simpering, yammering, fawning, condescending, demonizing, jabbering, groveling, babble, henpecking, braying, inveighing, wearies, preening, bleating, kowtowing, fulminating, wheedling, droning, pettifogging, dissembling, excoriates, cajoling, toadying, prevaricating, kvetching, patronising, prating, soft soaping, speechify, recriminating, cavilling, politically correct, declaiming, pitying, attitudinizing, bellyaching, bewailing, blabber, castigating, admonishing, upbraids, bootlicking, disobliging, gabbled, parroted, lambaste, chastising, patronizing, domineering, goading, squawking, inane, pussyfooting, reviling, discomfit, caterwaul, coddling, quailing, pilloried, moaning, despising, chide, equivocating, griping, drivelling, warmongering, prodding, whinge, snivel, blithering, spouting, scowling, needling, smirking, bitching, bullying, intimidation, spitting, flatulence, harassment, quarrelling, scolding, bickering, blundering, bragging, disagreement, grumbling, licking, nagging, nausea, nuisances, obloquy, sinning, teasing
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— Adjectives for hectoring: constant, more, such, most, preposterous, less, political, moral, much, incessant, simple, more...
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