| Self-assertion and a desire for autonomy are important components of genuine citizenship, as is a distrust of bossy authority. |
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| She is often accused of sounding like a headmistress of a girls' public school, part bossy, part jolly hockey sticks. |
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| His cocky and bossy attitude was not one she liked, but she did go over for Rolandon's sake. |
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| A person who knows how to take charge and organise others can also be bossy and dictatorial. |
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| Someone should slap me but I think it's minor retribution for her unnecessarily autocratic, bossy tendencies that once again reared up yesterday. |
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| She has a fondness for rascally men, a distaste for bossy wives, and a sympathy for anyone who leads with the heart instead of the brain. |
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| A thin, tall woman with a bossy face was giving orders to other girls as they took plates to the different tables. |
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| Sure, she could be a rude, obnoxious, pushy, bossy woman most of the time, but I also had to admit that she had the heart of a lion. |
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| It was obvious in the pride Jyller had and her bossy nature at ordering the maids around. |
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| How could she be attracted to such a rude, egotistical, high-handed, bossy man like him? |
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| Her father left and her mother worked all the time, so Joey decided to become man of the house and take on an authoritarian and bossy role. |
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| For years he seems to have been content to play the indolent lounge lizard, and as a passive partner in four rather bossy marriages. |
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| Albert lives with his domineering, bossy, bullying, unhappy, horrible mother. |
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| His father leaves him a cat in his will and the cat proves to be just as bossy as everyone else. |
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| Fergus is an affectionate, bossy and extremely stubborn cat, but he's also the most doglike cat I've ever known. |
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| The hound has to be a real character who tends to be bossy and, maybe, has become too much of a handful for his owners to deal with. |
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| Socially she could be bossy and unperceptive, but also extremely hospitable and generous in relation to friends and family. |
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| They will often be bossy with carers and show levels of assertion that most children generally do not. |
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| It is a model strictly for people who are into hierarchical societies with bossy elites who like to display their power. |
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| These two bossy, determined, sharp nosed, short women certainly appear to have much in common. |
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| She's bossy too but I was so glad she was there, even though none of the news was good. |
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| Produce very bossy chocolate bars that will order the eater to do ten press ups between each bite. |
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| A less bossy America will find it easier to promote core moral beliefs, it is argued. |
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| After sitting through the tedious mutualisation vote, he was dragooned by the bossy PR woman from during the question time session for group managing director. |
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| Lots of laughs, too, and Tilda Swinton offers standout support as Amy's bossy British editor. |
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| Although we are very fond of each other she is very bossy and bad tempered, and is very jealous for no reason. |
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| It's a simple, beautiful balance of contrasts, served lickety-split by an efficient, nearly bossy staff. |
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| Chances are your bossy father-in-law or lippy teen aren't going to magically change overnight. |
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| By the time of my third, five months ago, I was a right bossy cow about what I wanted because I knew the drill. |
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| Davey was a No8 back in the day, and I was this bossy little scrum-half with a ponytail. |
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| Americans were sick of big government and bossy federal bureaucrats, Mr McConnell said. |
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| Henry, the old man, is a lonely widower with a bossy daughter who can't keep out of her father's life. |
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| Conventional wisdom says that only children are lonely, maladjusted and selfish, and that first-born children are bossy overachievers. |
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| The doctor who called me bossy last week said I was doubly bossy today! |
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| I'm not sure if she was officially beachmaster, or just being bossy. |
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| He's very demonstrative and very in charge but he's very bossy, too. |
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| By turns bossy, blustery, and self-deprecating, Frida insinuates herself into every aspect of the place. |
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| They were sometimes a bit bossy and critical of others. |
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| She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her. |
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| They're bossy, take-charge types, these two. |
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| After one too many Early-Bird specials, Audrey realises what a penny-pincher Keith is and Norris is re-acquainted with bossy ex-wife Angela. |
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| Thatcher appears, looking like a possessed marionette, her bossy elocution a declaration of intent, as if she means her voice to carry, to be heard generations on. |
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| Those with hyperactivity or impulsivity or a combination of both traits may express their hyperactivity by being over-talkative, fidgety, bossy and risk taking but unable to keep up with their work load. |
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| He's just so bossy that he seems not only to have made the work but somehow to have used up the perusal and valuing of it as well, leaving my participation behindhand. |
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| Behind the Daffy Duck smile and customary tennis net veil, there lurked a greedy, bossy, old crabstick. |
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| Many aren't even meant to be part of the habitats they now maraud across, but thanks to human meddling, they ended up there, then got bossy about it. |
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| The self-confessed bossy boots will be using her years of experience to help the girls on the reality show, but has warned she will not sugar-coat what she says. |
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| When she was in the Wrens during the war, her friends used to call her Bossy Rossy. |
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| Bossy adults are turning baseball into a buzz kill for kids. |
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