(n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.
(n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.
(n.) To whip severely; to lash.
(n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
(n.) To harass or afflict severely.
Example Sentences:
(1) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(2) He added: "Those responsible for the murders of Fiona, Nicola, Mark and David Short are established criminals who are a scourge on our society.
(3) Afterwards, the scourge of corrupt politicians wagged his own clean finger in front of the cameras.
(4) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
(5) Francis, however, said the treatment hospital was a "shrine to human suffering" that emphasised the need to confront the scourge of drugs through education, justice and stronger social values.
(6) The former scourge of the establishment, then, became its friend.
(7) Lynch confirmation may 'be resolved' in 48 to 72 hours, says GOP senator Read more But the biggest Congressional headache of the year – a single cabinet nomination effectively hijacking the legislative calendar – has culminated in “a very sad irony”: Lynch has been one of the country’s premier guardians of victims of sex trafficking, and a tireless scourge of sex traffickers, a review of her record and conversations with current and former colleagues reveal.
(8) Late that night, Eliot Spitzer, New York governor and the scourge of Wall Street banks, called his closest aides.
(9) Shark finning, to serve Chinese diners, has also been a scourge.
(10) They include family formation and education and good jobs, and we’re going to bring them to the American people and finally end the scourge of poverty in this great land.” Although the conservative prescription is more familiar than the egalitarian diagnosis, such a full-throated emphasis on poverty would have marked a distinct change of tone for Republicans .
(11) In truth, zero-hours contracts (ZHC) aren’t the scourge of everyone’s existence.
(12) Despite stepped-up efforts to curb the scourge, the number of animals killed is around 100 higher than at the same point in 2013, a year which saw a record 1,004 deaths .
(13) Possibly one of the greatest contributions we can make to our patients' welfare is to share the knowledge that the risk of dying of breast cancer is considerably smaller than the risk of developing breast cancer; that the risk of early death from breast cancer rarely exceeds 10% in even the highest risk groups; and that the life styles most likely to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other scourges of womankind are also those most likely to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer.
(14) Even age-old scourges such as slavery continue to exist.
(15) A Home Office spokesperson said the department was already taking action to address key issues raised by the inspection report, saying: “This government is leading the world in confronting the scourge of modern slavery including through the groundbreaking Modern Slavery Act.
(16) In 2015, Barack Obama condemned “the scourge of antisemitism”.
(17) The marriage of two scourges, one old (mycobacterial disease) and one new (HIV), has presented an enormous challenge to the medical and public health communities, and has stirred renewed interest in mechanisms for immune control of mycobacterial infection.
(18) Like his colleague Tory MP Nicholas Soames, who in 2009 called the "scourge" of ragwort a national "shame", Benyon struck back, saying his critics were being "unnecessarily aggressive", and that he wasn't advocating ethnic cleansing of ragwort but that he wanted to deal with "a severe infestation of a poisonous plant".
(19) If anything, the economic crisis had made the scourge of unemployment even worse – on estates such as La Chêne Pointu, where more than half the population is under 25, joblessness tops 40%.
(20) We are going to be helping to put together a plan for them, so that they can start retaking territory that ISIL had taken over.” Iraq, which is forming a new government, and Muslim states with Sunni majorities, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey, would have to “step up” to confront the scourge of Sunni extremism, he said.
Scrounge
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But let’s not convince ourselves the rest are credible – punishment sensibly bestowed on the scrounging unemployed.
(2) Where those who are most vulnerable, most in need of help, are not seen as lazy, or scrounging, or robbing the rest of us for whatever they can get.
(3) I don’t really remember, I suppose I watched a bit of telly, scrounged around the fridge for something to eat … that was a grim, grim day.” His next choice of music, perhaps tellingly, was one he first heard while working on reconciliation during his time at Coventry cathedral, a poignant Advent composition by John Tavener.
(4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
(5) If you haven’t been scrounging the internet for Star Wars news, then you don’t know that Poe Dameron is Oscar Isaac’s character in The Force Awakens, who is thought to be a Han Solo-ish rogue.
(6) Indulging the Farageist conflation of Eastern migrants with scrounging and criminality was a very efficient way to undo any sense of gratitude or solidarity that was available in Bucharest or Warsaw.
(7) Then the subtext is of fraud, scrounging and dependence and the policy is one of draconian assessment .
(8) Once a promising student who wanted a career in chemistry, his priority would become scrounging a living.
(9) To grasp how this fits into austerity’s bigger picture, it’s worth going back to when the Conservatives began to sell the myth that Britain was filled with hordes of scrounging disabled people lining up to milk the state .
(10) When foreclosed homes are desirable to sophisticated, institutional, credit-worthy buyers, it stands to reason that banks will try to scrounge up as many foreclosures as possible.
(11) And the most insidious myth, increasingly pervasive, is that the poor are workshy , scrounging out chaotic lives in a nation where strivers are paying their taxes for skivers.
(12) A friend at a cartography institute later scrounged up some material.
(13) Briefly, he stood in Luton arrivals as a woolly-hatted emblem for a host of issues that reflect none too well on the state of Britain: anti-immigration fever, Europhobia, benefit-scrounging hysteria, a living reminder of our high unemployment, low pay, weak labour laws and slum housing epidemic.
(14) How we eventually moved to the dying coal mining town in West Virginia where my father was born, where we lived in an unheated shack, scrounging for food from the garbage.
(15) Almost all low-paid work is essential: a living wage would stop cheapskate employers scrounging off tax credits and importing what too often looks like serf-labour.
(16) There were a few threadbare years as he scrounged for work, but not enough to shake his conviction in his own lucky genes.
(17) Do we want to be a society that is supportive, that is inclusive and compassionate, where it is acknowledged that not all can prosper, where those who are most vulnerable, most in need of help, are not seen as lazy or scrounging or robbing the rest of us for whatever they can get?
(18) She has been described as a scrounging gypsy surviving on benefits, living in squalor with her 'tribe' in a series of ramshackle caravans surrounded by snarling dogs, empty beer bottles and rubbish.
(19) As a result, he spent part of this year sleeping on friends' sofas and scrounging food wherever he could.
(20) So patients who are too poor to pay out-of-pocket have to scrounge together the money from friends or family.