cudgel
Example Sentences
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The administration again turned to trade as a tool to achieve various aims and as a cudgel.
From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026
Nor should it be used as a cudgel, like “The Little List” in “The Mikado.”
From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025
Black abolitionists such as James Forten and Lemuel Haynes almost immediately began using the Declaration’s stirring language as a cudgel against slavery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
“Because people will say, ‘Well, this is just basically a cudgel, there’s not an issue at all, and it’s just being exploited.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025
To let the world shape your desire and love into a cudgel with which to drive you back into a cave of fear.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Vocabulary lists containing cudgel
Twelfth Night
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