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exemption or freedom from punishment or loss- He loved you both, but he could not love Hassan the way he longed to, openly, and as a father. So he took it out on you instead—Amir, the socially legitimate half, the half that represented the riches he had inherited and the sin-with-impunity privileges that came with them.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
impunity = exemption or freedom from punishment or loss
- I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado
- Amir, the socially legitimate half, the half that represented the riches he had inherited and the sin-with-impunity privileges that came with them.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- There is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need, I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- He began abruptly to pass from the impunity of things to their solemnity, and from their being delightful to their being impossible.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- But the absence of unions can permit corporations to behave like continuing criminal enterprises, to violate labor laws with impunity.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- War cannot be explained in the terms of the world we know, but as it moves through all we know, it does so with impunity and surprise.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- Ideals can't be betrayed with impunity, and now we must all take the consequences.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- It can't be forever violated with impunity.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- You were not even guilty of robbery, when you might have robbed with impunity.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- A way to kill with impunity.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- With impunity, Mr. Marx," he added, turning to Bernard.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- "Whereas Grace could accuse him with relative impunity," says Simon.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- No human creature can with impunity brave the ferocious anger of these monsters.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Then I can beeline toward Schiaparelli with impunity.Andy Weir -- The Martian
- No man sheds Lannister blood with impunity.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- If a governor of New York led a conspiracy, until the hostilities actually started, he could insure his accomplices entire impunity.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity?Abigail Adams -- Remember the Ladies
- Sonia, timid by nature, had felt before that day that she could be ill-treated more easily than anyone, and that she could be wronged with impunity.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- It was the abuse of impunity by the side of the abuse of punishment; two bad things which strove to correct each other.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
impunity = without punishment or loss as a consequence
impunity = exemption or freedom from punishment or loss
impunity = exemption or freedom from punishment or loss
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