Definition of Bullyism

1. rule by bullies [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullyism

bully boy
bully boys
bully off
bully pulpit
bully pulpits
bully tree
bully trees
bullyable
bullyboy
bullyboys
bullycide
bullycides
bullying
bullyingly
bullyings
bullyism (current term)
bullyisms
bullylike
bullyrag
bullyragged
bullyragging
bullyrags
bulrush
bulrush millet
bulrushes
bulrushy
bulse
bulses
bultfonteinite
bulti

Literary usage of Bullyism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1851)
"The following account of bullyism at Yale College, is taken from ... bullyism had its origin, like every thing else that is venerated, far back in antiquity ..."

2. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1885)
"They will raise a howl which will split the public ear about the violation of the privileges of debate, southern bullyism etc. Master Horace Greeley in ..."

3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"The victory of Buchanan," wrote Francis Lieber from Columbia, SC, "the victory of Southern bullyism, the acknowledgment of Northern men that, right or wrong ..."

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