Synonyms for spanking
ˈspæŋ kɪŋspank·ing

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1. spankingadjective

   Synonyms:
   striking

2. spankingadjective

   Fast and energetic.

   a spanking pace

   Synonyms:
   striking

3. spankingadjective

   Brisk and fresh.

   a spanking breeze

   Synonyms:
   striking

4. spankingadjective

   remarkable of its kind.

   a spanking good time

   Synonyms:
   striking

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1. spankingadjective

   the act of slapping on the buttocks

   "he gave the brat a good spanking"

   Antonyms:
   lethargic, unenrgetic

2. alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippyadjective

   quick and energetic

   "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"

   Synonyms:
   jovial, natty, marvelous, festive, rattling(a), brisk, wondrous, nipping, peppy, spruce, resilient, mirthful, jocund, frosty, festal, tremendous, grand, marvellous, snappy, live, racy, bouncing, watchful, lively, bouncy, wonderful, dapper, jolly, gay, springy, alive(p), tonic, fresh, awake(p), nippy, raffish, jaunty, fantastic, alert, merry, terrific, spiffy, rakish, rattling, snappish, howling(a), refreshful, dashing, spirited, full of life, bracing, crisp, whipping, refreshing, zippy, vital

   Antonyms:
   unenrgetic, lethargic

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1. List of paraphrases for "spanking":

   beating, ass

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1. Adrian Peterson:

   No one knows how I felt when I turned Adrian Peterson child around after spanking him and seeing what I had left on his leg, No one knows that Dad sat there and apologized to him, hugged him and told him that I didn't mean to do this to you and how sorry I was.

2. Will Durant:

   Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

3. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz:

   Was Secretary Clinton awake or asleep when four Americans were being murdered? We don't know to this day, we do know Hillary told her daughter Chelsea, 'Well gosh, I knew it was a terrorist attack,' while we were out telling the American people it wasn't. You know, I'll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Catherine, the 5-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking.

4. Rebecca Ryan:

   If it were an effective strategy, you would either see no correlation between spanking and child behavior, or you would see a correlation that's the opposite of what you do see, what you see is a positive correlation between spanking and higher levels of behavior problems. If it were effective you should see the opposite.

5. Matt Cartwright:

   I think about the close-knit confines of judicial chambers, you have a brand-spanking-new lawyer out of law school...( who) regards the federal judge that he or she works for as part of the pantheon of demigods.