All 3 Uses of
impunity
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- So perfect was the organisation of the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the perpetrators.†
Chpt 5
- He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with impunity.†
Chpt 7 *
- I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(impunity) exemption or freedom from punishment or loss