cudgeling
- present participle of cudgel.
Example Sentences
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That was followed by Black Snow, a cudgeling of Stanislavsky.
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With competition in the U.S. television industry growing hotter by the day, manufacturers were cudgeling their brains for new ways to trim costs and prices.
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On the other hand, their release of 214 Americans for combat would invite a propaganda cudgeling from China, ever eager to berate Moscow for betraying its allies in Hanoi.
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With the return of the buyer's market, every U.S. manufacturer is cudgeling his brain?and the brains of designers?to make his product work better, feel better, look better and sell better than those of his rivals.
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Those plebes had been cudgeling their stupid heads ever since dinner time to no purpose.
From On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration by Sinclair, Upton
