wifebeating

Example Sentences

• "That suggests that the wifebeatings in this nation are running into the many millions annually!"
• "But creepily enough, from '30s delta bluesman Robert Johnson's beating-until-satisfied "Me and Devil Blues" to Jackie Gleason's 1954 "One Of These Days — Pow!" to Dion's face-slapping 1962 "Little Diane" to Lou Reed exclaiming "you better hit her" in "There She Goes Again" to the Intruders chasing girls and beating 'em up in their 1968 beach-soul hit "Cowboys to Girls" to the "wifebeating has been around for 10,000 years" headline fronting Guns N' Roses Lies, those in favor seem more prevalent."
• "Though many states had laws by 1870 that prohibited wifebeating, the laws seem to have been enforced only weakly."
• "But the Clark-Darden experiment was better: mass-racist black-cheering of a wifebeating killer's release was an invaluable wakeup-shock to even the densest traditional civil-righteous Lib."
• "So I was in a world where all the men were wifebeating drunkards and I forgot."
• "Thinly disguised as Windsor House, “the lone tower block at the end of Golborne Road”, it is where the darts-playing, wifebeating criminal Keith Talent lives in Martin Amis’s novel London Fields (1989)."