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 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

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

Viewing the world from one standpoint, it has achieved remarkable success in applying the knout to superstition and limitation.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis