0 to talk and behave towards someone in a loud and unpleasantly forceful way, especially in order to get them to act or think as you want
Furthermore, the style is all too desperate, too hectoring.
Cajoling is replaced by hectoring.
It cannot be a relationship where either party feels entitled to lecture or hector the other.
I am sure that we should seek to persuade, not just hector and lecture.
I will not hector college principals or managers about what they should or should not do.
Many people in this country with sons or husbands in the services are naturally incensed by hectoring interviewers.
Someone under arrest awaiting trial is not to be questioned or hectored.
It is not good enough to hector or lecture people, or to subject communities to administrative and financial penalties or political ostracism.
