Trounced
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Representatives of the nationalist, anti-Western Liberal Democratic Party
trounced
the United Russia candidates in second-round run-offs in the gubernatorial elections in the Khabarovsk and Vladimir regions.
More example sentences with word trounced
It is a scary time when a whole group of people can be unceremoniously
trounced
with no defense and no real facts presented.
It was made in 1949 when its shallow plot would have barely made political sense to movie goers; but wasn't released until 1957, four years after the US Air Force had
trounced
the North Koreans and Russians in aerial combat in the Korean War.
What is one to make of a tale in which two of the most vulnerable characters are left wounded by the "hero" (Olive Chancellor in the present, Verena Tarrant in the future) and noble ideals are
trounced
by bigotry, brutism and misogyny?
The author's phobic attitude toward the "Boston Marriage" of the two heroines seems to mirror that of the southern chauvinist Basil Ransom (which is offputting) and the book never quite recovers from thoroughly humanizing the doomed females while setting them up to be
trounced
by the Great White Male.
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