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
The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
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
We are, so say our enemies, but little given to laudation, and far too ready when occasion offers, and sometimes when it does not, to clutch hastily at the knout.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
George Darling started, and the knout fell from his hand.
From Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind by Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers
