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
A ridiculous effigy of the Tsar with a knout in his hand now occupied the symbolic position and dominated the scene.
From The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell
The true translation of which, as we assure the unlearned reader, is—"Nor must you pursue with the horrid knout of Christopher that man who merits only a switching."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
