a sound defeat
drubbing
How to use drubbing in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for drubbing.
Editorial note
I'm glad that Vistaprint got the drubbing it deserves.
Quick take
a sound defeat
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of drubbing gathered in one view.
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for drubbing.
noun
a sound defeat
See also: thrashing, walloping, debacle, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
noun
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
See also: beating, thrashing, licking, lacing, trouncing, whacking
Example sentences
I'm glad that Vistaprint got the drubbing it deserves.
Given the drubbing that "greater purpose" has been given in the last 100 years, no wonder.
This does not help at all for the drubbing that macOS High Sierra has been getting recently.
I'll take a drubbing for this but her story has zero proof and is completely one-sided.
If Patterson didn't warn her then Patterson deserves a drubbing, too.
Nobody has yet mentioned the absolute drubbing that tech/semi stocks in general have taken.
> “Imagine what he’d be like,” said a reporter after emerging from a Jobs drubbing, “if he hadn’t studied Zen.”Ok, that was funny.
Suck it up. Either set your IDE to conform to the house style whatever that may be, or deal with the drubbing in code reviews and, by extension, negative marks on your performance evaluation.
There's no "drubbing" here at all, and adding "well-deserved" is as bad as something you'd expect from the Bush administration.
A less charitable person would say it's their attempt to save face after their gaming media drubbing over their money-sink mobile version.
Rove has an editorial at the WSJ right now that's their #1 article, about how Romney has good chances to win; it feels similar to how in 2006 he claimed to have "the math" before the Republicans got their drubbing.
I think it's a company that lost focus, and failed to ever quite recover from the drubbing it took during the first bust, and has had some vision problems...but it's also a company with a great innovation culture.
He’d broken the numbers down demographically and come up with a much less encouraging outcome for Clinton: a two-point squeaker in Indiana, and a seventeen-point drubbing in North Carolina.
After soundly drubbing the effectiveness of this symbolic event, the author finally suggests an alternative activity:"Focusing on green R&D might not feel as good as participating in a global gabfest with flashlights and good intentions, but it is a much brighter idea."...
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use drubbing in a sentence?
I'm glad that Vistaprint got the drubbing it deserves.
What does drubbing mean?
a sound defeat
What part of speech is drubbing?
drubbing is commonly used as noun.