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• v  rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner
• a  tending to domineer

• The psychologists concluded that gays and lesbians are nicer than straight people during arguments with partners: they are significantly less belligerent, less domineering and less .
• The pudgy first child of a bourgeois Jewish couple from southern Germany, he was strongly influenced by his domineering, musically inclined mother, who encouraged his passion for .
• Keenly aware of the grand, grave occasion, McCain wavered between respectful and domineering, and ended up awkward and edgy.

• tyrannize
• tyrannise
• domineer

• submissive

News & Articles

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• Pastor calls Schaible father 'domineering'
  A Philadelphia judge refused to release Herbert Schaible - the father whose belief in prayer over medicine ended in the deaths of two young sons - after he was described Thursday as "domineering and overbearing" in a letter by his pastor.
  June 20, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York Times
  ...Ahmadinejad said pointedly that if all the observer states became members, the organization would represent more than half of the world's population, and he urged the group to "ward off the threats of domineering powers to use their force...
• Rahul Dravid in Daily Times
  I've not found him domineering at all,Dravid said in an interview in the inaugural issue of the Cricinfo magazine which hits the stands on Thursday. "Chappell has been more than willing to listen to my ideas and my thoughts and I get a...
• Chris McCarron in BusinessWeek
  He still wants to be domineering,McCarron said. "He just doesn't have the energy to be that way because of his age, but the spark is still there. It's just that the spark plug is getting weak."