wife-beating
Speech parts
1. wife-beating - Noun
2. wife-beating - Adjective
Meaning
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
Synonyms
Examples
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.
Another good remedy for wife-beating is the abolition of the Catholic Church.
Grossman, 222. These rulings occurred in the midst of societies where wife-beating was legally sanctioned and routine.
He next played the psychotic wife-beating husband of Twiggy in her American film debut, (1974).