bear-baiting

noun

1. (formerly) an entertainment in which dogs attacked and enraged a chained bear

Example Sentences

It is also true that the New York Post practices the celebrity equivalent of bear-baiting.

From The Daily Beast

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

From Project Gutenberg

The Puritan condemned bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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For some weeks the town of Smyrna had been witnessing something very like a bear-baiting.

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Cer'don, the boldest of the rabble leaders in the encounter with Hu'dibras at the bear-baiting.

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He was a rigid puritan "of low morals," and very fond of bear-baiting.

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