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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

impunity = without punishment or loss as a consequence

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

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

impunity = exemption or freedom from punishment or loss

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

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