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Definition of Bully

Bully

  1. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
  2. A brisk, dashing fellow.
  3. Jovial and blustering; dashing.
  4. Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
  5. To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.
  6. To act as a bully.
  7. Alt. of Bully beef

Bully Quotations

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Lyndon B. Johnson

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
Tom Hiddleston

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
Seth Godin
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Bully Translations

bully in French is brutalisons, brutalisez, brutalisent
bully in German is Tyrann, Maulheld

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