whipped
adjective
having received a whipping.
unwhipped
-
a word derived from
whipped.
Example Sentences
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To Attorney General Herbert Brownell, it seems absurd and dangerous to let spies "go unwhipped of justice" behind that shield.
From Time Magazine Archive
He once said: "Private detectives as a class are the biggest lot of blackmailing thieves that ever went unwhipped of justice."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Peter hasn't," the little man lied cheerfully; "Peter went home to sulk like the unwhipped cub he is; and sulking, was yet decent enough to lend me these rags."
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
He's been to see me already, the unwhipped pup," he went on, while in the shadows Allen's hands gripped themselves into fists, "trying to find out more about my client and John Josephs.
From The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run by Laura Lee Hope
We doubt whether the most limited gynocracy would tolerate the use of tobacco as an article of daily diet, or permit ferocious murders to go unwhipped of justice under the name of duels.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
