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
After I read a certain book by Tolstoy, I realized that art was as potent an agent for mischief as the knout.
From Visionaries by Huneker, James
Can anyone estimate the effect upon a single human being to have known that a father, brother, son, sister, or wife has perished under the knout?
From A Short History of Russia by Parmele, Mary Platt
