cudgeled

They’re okay, more or less, if you can call cudgeled into stunned immobility “okay.”

X-Men’s Len Wein survives house fire 2009

Dede vainly cudgeled her brains in quest of a reply to these remarks.

Chapter XVIII 2010

And while Graham exchanged reminiscences of Mokpo with her, he cudgeled his brain to try and decide whether her continual reference to her husband was deliberate.

CHAPTER XVII 2010

Perhaps expecting to be cudgeled himself over the inaccuracies in Treme, the series about post-Katrina New Orleans that debuted Sunday night on HBO, he wrote a smart essay in the New Orleans Times Picayune that serves as a preemptive defense against all the kind of nit-picking that surrounded “Hurt Locker.”

David Simon on getting it right--and wrong 2010

Mr Jacobs, god rest his soul, had an idea and somehow cudgeled his way through a very few hundreds of words to fashioning something resembling a story.

Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010

Yes, pummeled and cudgeled passing well was a pretty good description.

Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

However, sadly after that I'm cudgeled into an endless circuit of assessments and late-night cramming, I barely had enough time to sleep let alone to escape my room for just one afternoon for an outing.

teddy-risation™ 2009

I suspect that his confirmation as Secretary of Commerce will not bode anything good for the modification of egregiously damaging trade agreements unless he is cudgeled into supporting those measures.

Republican Bipartisanship, a Union of Both of Their Faces 2009

Hardly had the Irish cudgeled their way to respectability than they began dumping on the Italian and Polish and Jewish immigrants fleeing the poverty and prejudice of a Europe in the grip of the same free-trade enthusiasts.

Tony Hendra: Correction: It's Not Their Country, It's Their Continent 2008

It is of no importance that the parish priest has cudgeled his brains to come up with suggestive ideas or imaginative novelties.

Benedict XVI on the sacred in worship Fr Timothy Matkin 2008