0 the quality of being bossy (= always telling people what to do): --
What may be bossiness in the home could be strong leadership in the workplace.
I'm fed up with Ruth's bossiness.
Behind them lies an instinctive bossiness and intolerance, as well as a lack of appreciation why so many people fail to make provision for their future.
Yet the more we restrict, the more we allow such bossiness.
This provision is a protest against that kind of bossiness, rather than against the facts of life.
We do not want to tip over into bossiness, which would simply antagonise people and not advance the position at all.
Each agency considers its particular brand of bossiness paramount.
I am appalled by the sloppy thinking shown by the sort of mixture of fundamental reasoning and arrogant bossiness which does not recognise this danger.
The sheer bossiness of it all is quite extraordinary.
Those without political ambition are more inclined to be sceptical and suspicious of ever-growing regulation and general bossiness.
