Crossword-Solution: BLUDGEONED 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

One saw there smudgy illustrated sheets, the _Police News_ in particular, in which vilely drawn pictures brought home to the dullest intelligence an interminable succession of squalid crimes, women murdered and put into boxes, buried under floors, old men bludgeoned at midnight by robbers, people thrust suddenly out of trains, happy lovers shot, vitrioled and so forth by rivals.

The only novel thing about the whole case is that the old party was shot with a pistol and not bludgeoned, as is usually the case in affairs of this kind.

Although Canadians were anxious for trade relations, they were not willing to be bludgeoned into accepting one-sided terms.

The pillars of civilization are undermined and human aspirations bludgeoned down by no Power, but by all Powers; by no autocrats, but by all autocrats; not because this one or that has erred or dared or dreamed or swaggered, but because all, in a mad stampede for armament, trade and territory, have sowed swords and guns, nourished harvests of death-dealing crops, made ready the way.

What I fear is that he will be bludgeoned on the street some dark night, or involved in a one-sided duel.