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flogging

/flog-ing, flaw-ging/US // ˈflɒg ɪŋ, ˈflɔ gɪŋ //

鞭打,鞭笞,笞刑,鞭挞

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a beating, especially with a whip or scourge:Punishments included public flogging, imprisonment, or death by stoning.
    • : aggressive promotion or advertising:The writer is annoyed by the flogging and over-coverage of the World Cup, a sporting event he claims few Americans know or care much about.

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Examples

  • I’m not trine be all performative smurf & create a social flogging or start some clickbait headlines.

  • “For fear the slaves should run away, while unable to work from flogging, He kept them chained till they could work again,” Grandy wrote.

  • Knight realized the law allowed rich men to stay home while poor men fought — so he deserted, only to find himself hog-tied, hauled to military jail and likely flogged.

  • I decided that if I was going to make it through the pregnancy, I needed to stop flogging myself with embarrassment.

  • According to some reports, the flogging of the new mother is to take place in less than two weeks.

  • “We ask actress Leila Hatami be sentenced to one to ten years imprisonment and flogging,” the petition read.

  • “It was a flogging or worse if you even carried a match into the mine,” one of the French laborers had told Walker Hancock.

  • In a nation of couch potatoes, advertisers know the value of flogging their brands when the orchestra starts to gush.

  • The poor devil willingly undertook to deliver it, and the marshal, as directed, caused the bearer to receive a hearty flogging.

  • He spoke against capital punishment, against church-rates, against flogging in the army, and against the Irish Established Church.

  • For a flogging is oftentimes the only punishment of which a rough and ill-conditioned boy is afraid.

  • Happily I had done some service to two or three slaves among the party, and had saved them more than once from a flogging.

  • Well, Miss Sommers herself was good enough to tell me that it would probably mean flogging to death.