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bully
bully:
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n. a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates ...
v. to act the bully toward; intimidate; domineer; to be loudly arrogant and overbearing
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The Cambridge Thesaurus of American English:
n. ruffian, tough, tyrant;
v. browbeat, intimidate, bluster
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus:
n. domineering person; annoyer, antagonizer, browbeater, harrier, hector, pest, ruffian, tormenter, tough;
v. push around; bludgeon, bluster, browbeat, buffalo, bulldoze, coerce, harass, hector, lord over, menace, overbear, persecute, ride roughshod, showboat, swagger, torture, turn on the heat, tyrannize, walk heavy [probably while wearing combat boots]
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wikipedia:
n. a cruel and brutal fellow; hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo, tough; aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker
v. discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
browbeat, swagger; blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle, palaver
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Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus:
n. person intimidating others; hooligan, rowdy, thug; persecutor, oppressor;
v. persecute; victimize, intimidate, tyrannize; see v. RAILROAD
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Bullies at this site ought not be welcomed/tolerated. By anyone. At any time. (Need I say: A favorite tactic of one who bullies is to claim to be the victim ... when indeed the opposite is true.)
Chuck
Note: Bullies present know who they are; I do not need to list them ... and won't.