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horsewhipping

[ UK /hˈɔːswɪpɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of whipping with a horsewhip
    that villain needs a good horsewhipping

How To Use horsewhipping In A Sentence

  • She never paid the sixpence, though she lost, but contented herself by abusing Mary all day, and said I was a poor-spirited sneak for not instantly horsewhipping Mr. P. The Great Hoggarty Diamond
  • Do ascertain the truth before you do anything violent, such as horsewhipping or poisoning. ' Wives and Daughters
  • Why, now I bethink me, he _was_ present," replied Blaize, involuntarily putting his hand to his shoulder, as he recalled the horsewhipping he had received on that occasion. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
  • At others he gave them “a good horsewhipping,” in the hope of deflecting pressures to fire them. The Return
  • Mr. Pearson was not quite as lucky two years later, when — possibly emboldened by his success with McAlister against Loughnan, and the abrupt and helpful findings of Mr. Justice à Beckett — our great great grandfather was convicted of assault in an ugly horsewhipping episode. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Ugadale Arms Hotel unattractive horsewhipping episode Fountains Flowing With Wine
  • In 1957 when Lord Altrincham complained that she sounded like a ‘priggish schoolgirl’, he was predictably threatened with horsewhipping and the borough of Altrincham hastened to dissociate itself from so subversive an opinion.
  • that villain needs a good horsewhipping
  • Her scandals were manifold, including, perhaps unsurprisingly, a case of horsewhipping. Times, Sunday Times
  • She responded to a critical article in the Ballarat Times by horsewhipping the editor, who retaliated in kind.
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