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Keywords: persuasive, intimidation, threats, think, negative

to be persuasive in a negative way or to force a person to think or act in a given way by pressure, threats or intimidation.

Keywords: constrain, intended, serving, instead, authority

Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain.

serving or intended to coerce; "authority is directional instead of coercive"