flogworthy
English
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editflogworthy (comparative more flogworthy, superlative most flogworthy)
- Worthy of flogging or to be flogged; (by extension) deserving of punishment; punishable.
- 1778, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, The Spectator:
- Mr. Marples with drunken motorists, Sir David Eccles with middle-class undergraduates, Mr. Vosper with flogworthy delinquents, Mr. Macleod with defederating Rhodesians, [...]