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Example sentences for: hectoring

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After 103 hectoring minutes of the movie, I wondered: What's wrong with Cruella De Vil?
If Bradley remained on the high road, emphasizing his positive message and ignoring the vice president's hectoring, the unanswered criticism would damage him.
) 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.
But the WP disagrees: "Aides said the president's aim was to avoid a lecture about human rights--which he felt the Chinese would dismiss as hectoring by an outsider."
But there is room for improvement in our leadership style . Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has asked those of us who speak publicly for the United States to make a conscious effort not to sound smug, patronizing, or hectoring.