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cudgel

noun as in baton for hitting

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You have this privilege to be famous and you use it as a cudgel?

Gina Dominguez, the spokeswoman for Gov. Javier Duarte and his cudgel with the local press, resigned a mere three days later.

The insane, obscene, yawning difference between the pay of workers and bosses has long been used as a cudgel by labor groups.

They just want any cudgel they can find to beat Obama over the head, so Snowden suits their purposes for now.

The cudgel that President Obama is whacking House Republicans with is the cudgel they themselves put in his hand.

That's the very way we lost the battle:—for had the two parties never met, depend on't, one had never cudgel'd the other.

The higher classes have generally handsome pistols or great knives, the others content themselves with a good cudgel.

Behind him on the roof of one of the houses we saw a man with a long cudgel which he shook at the monkey.

He still carried his cane, but he had no use for it, save to clutch it in one hand more after the manner of a cudgel than a cane.

I am about to fulfil a great act of justice by braining you with my cudgel like a wolf caught in a trap.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cudgel, such as: nightstick, truncheon, bastinado, bat, billy, and birch.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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