bossy
adjective
1.
offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
- “an autocratic person”
- “autocratic behavior”
- “a bossy way of ordering others around”
- “a rather aggressive and dominating character”
- “managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way”
- “a swaggering peremptory manner”
Origin
From boss + -y.
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