knout
Example Sentences
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Moscow's long-suffering moviegoers glowed vindictively: the managers of the city's neighborhood moviehouses were at last writhing under the official knout.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new, obnoxiously corporate-modeled, self-franchising Guggenheim may run on laptops, but what it really needs is an editorial pencil -- if not a knout.
From Time Magazine Archive
The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
From Time Magazine Archive
A ridiculous effigy of the Tsar with a knout in his hand now occupied the symbolic position and dominated the scene.
From The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell
"Don't Russian women present the knout to their bridegrooms?" asked Éloise then, mischievously.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
