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bullylike

bullylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a bully.

Adjective

bullylike (comparative more bullylike, superlative most bullylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bully.
    • He was skilled, a natural, in things mechanical. He liked to boss and was often swaggering and bullylike in his playground behavior.1995, Ellis Paul Torrance, Why fly?

Forms of bullylike

comparativemore bullylike
superlativemost bullylike

Origin of bullylike

From bully + -like.

Questions about bullylike

What does bullylike mean?
Bullylike means resembling or characteristic of a bully.
What part of speech is bullylike?
Bullylike is an adjective.

Words near bullylike in the dictionary

  1. bullyingly
  2. bullyings
  3. bullyish
  4. bullyishly
  5. bullyism
  6. bullylike
  7. bullyman
  8. bullymen
  9. bullyness
  10. bullyproof
  11. bullyproofed

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