public flogging
Open corporal discipline
Public flogging is a punishment in which someone is whipped or beaten in view of spectators, historically used to shame offenders and deter others.
The phrase now appears mostly in figurative contexts—a harsh public rebuke or humiliation: The CEO's apology tour felt like a public flogging.
The literal practice persists in some countries under religious or civil law.
- whipStrikes or aerates
- lashStrike or bind
- whipping postPost for binding during lashing
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- shamePainful awareness of failure
scarlet letter · crowd · spectacle · town square · medieval · stripes · crime · barbaric · torture · cruel and unusual · humiliation · sentence · mob justice · brutal · executioner · pain · scourge · pillory
- corporal punishmentwhipping, caning, lashing, beating, spanking
- Islamic Lawsharia, Sharia, Shariah, Islamic law, fatwa
- old customsarranged marriage, arranged marriages, dowry, betrothal, courtship rituals
- punishmentsjail, prison, timeout, grounded, fine
- vigilantismvigilante, vigilantism, lynch mob, lynching, mob justice
public flogginggentle encouragement
Supportive, soft urging
restorative justice · amnesty · forgiveness · counseling · positive reinforcement
public floggingpublic praise
Commendation given openly
medal ceremony · ticker-tape parade · award ceremony · hero's welcome · public celebration
public, publicly, publics, publication, publish, publisher, publishing, published, publican