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flogging
noun as in lashing
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I decided that if I was going to make it through the pregnancy, I needed to stop flogging myself with embarrassment.
According to some reports, the flogging of the new mother is to take place in less than two weeks.
“We ask actress Leila Hatami be sentenced to one to ten years imprisonment and flogging,” the petition read.
“It was a flogging or worse if you even carried a match into the mine,” one of the French laborers had told Walker Hancock.
In a nation of couch potatoes, advertisers know the value of flogging their brands when the orchestra starts to gush.
The poor devil willingly undertook to deliver it, and the marshal, as directed, caused the bearer to receive a hearty flogging.
He spoke against capital punishment, against church-rates, against flogging in the army, and against the Irish Established Church.
For a flogging is oftentimes the only punishment of which a rough and ill-conditioned boy is afraid.
Happily I had done some service to two or three slaves among the party, and had saved them more than once from a flogging.
Well, Miss Sommers herself was good enough to tell me that it would probably mean flogging to death.
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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flogging, such as: whipping, beating, caning, flagellation, flailing, and horsewhipping.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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