knout

Example Sentences

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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

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 feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.

From Time Magazine Archive

A very large and symbolic knout might occupy the position of the present mace, and from time to time the Speaker could take it up and crack it.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 by Various

Poverty has a knout in its hand driving you on.

From Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by Cooke, James Francis