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breast-beating
[ brest-bee-ting ]
noun
- a loud and demonstrative display of grief, remorse, or the like:
The authorities indulged in a great deal of breast-beating about traffic accidents but failed to pass new driving laws.
adjective
- characterized by or involving breast-beating.
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Other Words From
- breast-beater noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of breast-beating1
First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences
The fact that Jewish youths behaved like this should scare even our breast-beating nationalist leaders into some soul searching.
From The Daily Beast
They must have dismissed India as a soft state whose breast-beating is easily calmed by tokenism.
From The Daily Beast
Red-Eye abruptly ceased his breast-beating and tooth-grinding, and ran across the timber-jam to the shore.
From Project Gutenberg
Breast-beating is as solitary as any other form of masturbation.
From Project Gutenberg
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