bashing

Then a bashing, as you call it, would not frighten you from committing a crime?

But his resistance should be secret and not open, for a while; there should be no more "bashing" than was absolutely necessary.

Bashing her dolls' heads was, with this baby, a preliminary to loving them.

Bashing or not, criticism of the media reflects the fact that media expanded their participation in power.

At that moment William hove out of the night, driving his tent before him by bashing it with a mallet.

There would be less booze and bashing, fewer drabs and drinking-shops.

But as you say, what's been done can't be remedied by bashing in a man's head.

I hadn't much nerve left after the bashing I had taken a fortnight before and didn't hold much hope.

In a second Harve had him tripped and thrown and was down on him bashing in his face for him.

Honest to God, when you gas like that I feel like bashing in your brain, if you've got any!