knout

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

The sleet whipped their shoulders like a thousand-lashed knout.

From Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)