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noun
A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
A playground bully pushed a girl off the swing.
I noticed you being a bully towards people with disabilities.
A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
Besides, bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in; and men of trick and cunning are not always men of desperate resolves.
And I think the facts are that Beijing is a belligerent bully jealous and envious of what Taiwan has accomplished- mainland China- that's what I get out of all of this.
A hired thug.
Mr. Fisher returned from town... he had learnt that our opponents intended to shift the scene of operations to the Chats... We understood that they had hired two bullies for the purpose of deciding the matter par voie de fait. Mr Fisher hired two of the same description, who were supposed to be more than a match for the opposition party.
A sex worker's minder.
The Proclamation Society and the Society for the Suppression of Vice were more concerned with obscene literature […] than with hands-on street battles with prostitutes and their bullies […].
Bully beef.
verb
To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
You shouldn't bully people for being weak.
I won't have you bullying us out my own house.
To act aggressively towards.
The Potters know their strengths and played to them perfectly here, out-muscling Bolton in midfield and bullying the visitors' back-line at every opportunity.
adj
Very good.
a bully horse
To sing a bully song I'll try, / Bully for you, bully for you, / Gay as they make them, here I am, / Bully for you, for you.
Jovial and blustering.
Bless thee, bully doctor!