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- verb Present participle of
flagellate .
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Examples
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Paul "Jarvis" Bettany Didn't Know He was in a Comic Book Movie Actor Paul Bettany, best known as the flagellating Albino Monk in
Comic Book Movie 2008
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Typically portrayed in comedic roles (The World According To Garp, Harry and the Hendersons, and Third Rock from the Sun), Lithgow has already shown a strong bad guy persona by killing a girl and self-flagellating himself over a very hot shower.
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When suddenly, last year, people were having to make self-flagellating statements about their inner racism or be branded a * worse* sort of racist (the unrepentant kind).
intertribal: the good thing is, I kept thinking of movies I liked, not movies I hated intertribal 2010
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Those of us who are already self-flagellating, crusade-supporting, meat-free-Fridays Catholics know the answer instinctively.
Tyler Mahoney: The 99 Lost Sheep: 20-Somethings And The Catholic Church Tyler Mahoney 2011
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In a city where finding fault is a blood sport, shoppers can ease into something resembling calm, never flagellating themselves for having picked the wrong line.
Sunshine at the Supermarket Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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The Guardian's Merope Mills, who was at the event, tweeted that the publisher's speeches were embarrassingly self-flagellating.
Jonathan Franzen's glasses held to ransom Benedicte Page 2010
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Ah, my beloved Keith Popely -- the first follower of my self-flagellating blog and a absolute wild man.
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Trolls self congratulating … or is it self flagellating?
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Then on Saturday, another situation arose that would ordinarily have me flailing about in a self-flagellating diatribe: I was learning to purl.
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He waved his arms about, wildly flagellating the air, his body writhing and twisting in torment.
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