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
"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
It was not inhumanity, but fear of the knout, that hurried him away.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various
