Sentence examples for aggressive father from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "aggressive father" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a father who exhibits hostile or forceful behavior, often in a parenting context.
Example: "The children often felt intimidated by their aggressive father, who would raise his voice during disagreements."
Alternatives: "domineering father" or "overbearing father".

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There, they and others step in between the swans and chase away the aggressive father and his brood.

The old anger was a defence mechanism in response to a remote and aggressive father, and he doesn't need it any more, even if it probably helps him relate to Hirst.

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The Oedipal struggle between the passive-aggressive father and the chafing son; the romance between the blue-collar lug and the upper-crust beauty; the resentful best friend who wonders why things can't be the way they were — all of these elements are predictably in place.

Asturias then shows how el Pelele, a mother-loving figure, "suffers at the hands of those who, long under the domination of the over-aggressive father figure, lack love and pity".

A doting mother leads him to believe he has psychic gifts; an aggressive, extrovert father causes him to doubt his sexuality.

Sister Doris, the chief nurse, said Babbitt was aggressive and Father Stuart once shot Babbitt in the ass with a load of rock salt.

Society and the media market, accessibility and appeal of games and the lack of exciting but non-aggressive games, fathers' and peers' similar preferences, and lack of outdoor activities, are also believed to influence boys' preferences.

They say he's even more aggressive than his father".

For example, why was my father aggressive with staff and residents, but not with us?

One day he was a man of his culture, a disciplinarian father, aggressive, loud, assertive, edgy, irascible, solipsistic.

Known for his "niceness," Walter Berglund is a weak, passive-aggressive husband and father, who weirdly sells out his nature-loving ideals to work with an evil coal company.

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