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

When Jason Philip came back from the inn, he said: “To believe that people can be ruled without the knout is a fatal delusion.”

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

These are the fearful scourges, the whips worse than the knout, which lie at the back of Capital, and give it its power. 

From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur