But with more deadbeat cheating wife-beating husbands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jilly Gagnon: Live-Blogging Lifetime Movies] Reference

Stanley Jerusaelm, Fair point about the "wife-beating".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

That explains why wife-beating is endemic in those places then.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Mrs Gibbons technically faces three charges - insulting Islam, inciting religious hatred and contempt for religious beliefs..."] Reference

The subject of Joshilyn Jackson's powerful new novel is wife-beating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joshilyn Jackson's 'Backseat Saints,' a brutal novel about domestic abuse] Reference

He had seen burnt toast end up in wife-beating and prison and divorce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

I read a newspaper article on the wife-beating rubbish a few years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Factoid of the Day No 1] Reference

Mr Bouziane was accused of publicly justifying wife-beating in an article.    From Wordnik.com.  [France backs hate expulsion law] Reference

George Washington's slave-mongering matters, but O.J. Simpson's wife-beating doesn't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench] Reference

Yeah, especially his awesome wife-beating antics show what a nonchalant gentleman he is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is there room for three great dramas at HBO?] Reference

I had no intention of posing a wife-beating question, so apologies if it came over that way.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Problem Denied is a Problem Solved] Reference

Heck, think of the average wife-beating husband who seems so normal to his neighbors and friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was Bruce E. Ivins the anthrax terrorist?] Reference

Note 1: In fact, nineteenth-century courts used the term "chastisement" to refer to wife-beating.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.] Reference

Why do westerners focus so much more on the veil and the hijab, while more or less ignoring wife-beating?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chapter Four, Verse Thirty-Four Dance] Reference

I remember, in the poor black communities that I saw, there seemed to be a lot of wife-beating in those days.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Tina]

They seem to acknowledge that wife-beating is wrong, yet they avoid releasing the woman from the bad marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wifebeating in Jewish Tradition.] Reference

In days past, it's been jokes about wife-beating, bombing Iran, Chelsea Clinton's looks, and Alzheimer's Disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Cesca: Senator McCain Isn't Funny, So Stop Encouraging Him] Reference

“Lessons about wife-beating at five: In the week Harriet Harman takes charge, yet another feminist initiative”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

In 2001, he pleaded no contest to a charge of wife-beating and was sentenced to attend domestic-violence counseling.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Moonwalk To Perp Walk] Reference

As if he was genuinely sorry that the defendant was a wife-beating creep, but that the jury had to decide if that mattered.    From Wordnik.com.  [State Of War]

But the trait the two have in common isn't the part that makes wife-beating alkies objectionable hint: it involves wife-beating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why not engage with me instead of trying to make me into your enemy?] Reference

Elizabeth Pleck, for example, has observed the significance of social and community sanctions against wife-beating during this era.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.] Reference

It was called wife-beaters. com and "gave a discount to anyone who could prove they were convicted of wife-beating," the story says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Bronstein: Groping, Wife-Beating, and Octo-Mom Porn? Maybe It Ain't the "Fairer" Sex...] Reference

Doubtless what Mr. Weller, Sr., describes as the "amiable weakness" of wife-beating was not necessarily confined to the "lower rank.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.] Reference

The brutalities of every wife-beating drunkard just landed upon our shores might be logically credited to Mrs. Widesworth, and to those.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference

The urge to simplify is not the same as longing for raw sewage and wife-beating, and to twist it that way is insulting to serious-minded folks who would like a course correction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt Ridley's “The Rational Optimist,” reviewed by Wray Herbert] Reference