1. wife-beating - Noun
2. wife-beating - Adjective
wife-beating (comparative more wife-beating, superlative most wife-beating)
Prone to physically assaulting one's wife.
wife-beating (countable and uncountable, plural wife-beatings)
Alternative form of wifebeating
The trouble now is that most of the wife-beating is among the extremely poor, so that the wife by informing against her husband, takes the last crust out of her own mouth. Robert G. Ingersoll
Another good remedy for wife-beating is the abolition of the Catholic Church. Robert G. Ingersoll
Grossman, 222. These rulings occurred in the midst of societies where wife-beating was legally sanctioned and routine. Source: Internet
He next played the psychotic wife-beating husband of Twiggy in her American film debut, (1974). Source: Internet