bullyishly

Adjective

bullyishly (comparative more bullyishly, superlative most bullyishly)

1. (informal) In a bullyish manner.
   • A noisy fly with a showy metallic back, a coarse fellow, lighted on the ground and buzzed bullyishly, his insistent voice demanding to be heard although it had only vapid repetitions to make.1950, Margaret Shedd, “Sunday, March 23, 1947”, in Return to the Beach, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, part 1, page 96
   • He delivered her to a cold-faced buff brick apartment house not far from downtown. It had a pinched and pained look, from the way its greater and finer neighbors to either side crowded bullyishly against it.1958, Al Dewlen, chapter X, in The Bone Pickers, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 193