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Example sentences for: hectoring

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Flytrap is a case of journalists doing precisely what press critics are always hectoring them to do--just supply the facts, don't indulge in opinion or conclusion--and shows the inadequacy of that journalistic ideal.
If Bradley remained on the high road, emphasizing his positive message and ignoring the vice president's hectoring, the unanswered criticism would damage him.
But this time he was able to be critical of Bill Bradley without coming off as smarmy or hectoring.
) The results were humorless and hectoring, a tedious, nonstop barrage that was better suited to a Mad magazine satire than to the subtle task of infiltrating the wary consumer's mind.
After 103 hectoring minutes of the movie, I wondered: What's wrong with Cruella De Vil?