Meaning

The act or practice of physically assaulting one's wife..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act or practice of physically assaulting one's wife.
2. Alternative form of wife-beating.

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).

Word Forms

• wifebeatings
• more wifebeating
• most wifebeating

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