0 the quality of being bossy (= always telling people what to do):
I'm fed up with Ruth's bossiness.
What may be bossiness in the home could be strong leadership in the workplace.
His bossiness gets on people's nerves.
He put her bossiness down to her being a teacher.
If bossiness continues unabated, insist that the child leave the play area.
Such voluntary measures will have the greatest impact on reducing smoking with the minimum of bossiness.
We look forward to reducing smoking in this country by persuasion rather than by bossiness, and by concentrating our attention on the young.
The bossiness and inability to leave reasonably well alone, and the carelessness about whether legislation is properly thought out or considered, remain regrettably unabated.
Sometimes the bossiness has a rather nasty, harsh note to it, and that is disliked even more.
Those without political ambition are more inclined to be sceptical and suspicious of ever-growing regulation and general bossiness.
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