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Meaning of whipworthy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Deserving a whipping.

Examples

“"The whipworthy rogue would not have used me so foully had he not outweighed me by two to one."”
“"We'll give those whipworthy bastards what they deserve yet, see if we don't."”
“Segal (1987, 137–169) recognized the omnipresent threat of the whip and, emphasizing that the whipworthy slave never gets whipped, put forward the idea of the comedy as carnival.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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