intimidator

noun

Definition of intimidatornext
as in bully
a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons the loan shark hired an intimidator to make sure that he got all that was owed him

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  1. bully
  2. enemy
  3. thug
Noun
  • Randle's bully ball and inattentive defense are mucking everything up.
    Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • She’s encountered everything from misguided but well-intentioned curiosity about her disability to bullies and know-it-alls who ask her where her glasses are.
    Angela Haupt, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of bully
Noun
  • The system is often the enemy in Eastwood’s movies.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Historically the enemies of Christian America were secular humanists, feminists and then more recently Democrats and the woke.
    John Blake, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of enemy
Noun
  • The proximate cause of the war crimes chronicled in Han’s novels is South Korea’s succession of authoritarian governments, their soldiers and police; on Jeju Island, these were joined by gangs of right-wing thugs.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, that is Canet playing the paragliding avenger, Franck, who’s trying to free his abducted pregnant wife, Léo (Stéphane Caillard), from a blackmailing thug.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of thug
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