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
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
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
