bossy

Their parents, too, are likable, loving, hard-working people, a little bossy now and then, but genuinely concerned for their children.

It gets hearty laughs by flattening Russell’s Walker — a tragic Afghanistan veteran confused by the government’s inconsistency about when he’s allowed to kill — into a spoof of bossy, paternalistic privilege.

"Well, I don't call her my manager. Everybody else calls her my manager, because she's bossy. She's a little Capricorn like me. So we have that bond."

Rachel Sennott, playing Rebecca’s bossy best friend, groans that forming an intimate bond with her is impossible.

Some of these characters are bossy while remaining ambitious or what could even be considered cutthroat.