clobbering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of clobber

noun

1. (informal)A beating; a thrashing; a thorough defeat.

adj

1. (not-comparable)That clobbers.

   “It seems as if they traded in the complexity of a full range of troubling emotion for the clobbering pathos of the shouting match.”