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They are suing to recover their cost and for punitive damages.punitive = for punishment (beyond payment for financial loss)
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She never laid a hand on me punitively—she was anti-spanking in a way must have come from her own bad experiences—but when I asked her what it felt like to be punched in the head, she showed me.† (source)punitively = in a manner that inflicts punishment
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I've read about how Jews and non-Aryans were harassed and taxed punitively and had to give up everything to be allowed to leave the country.† (source)
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Death row is the most restrictive punitive confinement permitted.† (source)punitive = inflicting punishment
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The Commander, instead, smells of mothballs, or is this odor some punitive form of aftershave?† (source)
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Or I shall have to take some severe punitive measures.† (source)
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She got cavity-searched every day for a month once, right after she had spoken up at a meeting and suggested that her supervisor might be on the wrong track with a major programming project It was punitive and vicious, she knew it was, but she always wanted to give something back to her country, and whenever you work for the Feds you just accept the fact that there's going to be some politicking.† (source)punitive = inflicting punishment
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"The point of the suspension isn't punitive," he said quietly.† (source)
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Our cultural heritage will be lost to a whole generation, excluded by a punitive financial barrier.† (source)
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If the death penalty is ever to be imposed for desertion, it should be imposed in this case, not as a punitive measure nor as retribution, but to maintain that discipline upon which alone an army can succeed against the enemy.† (source)
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The ban on phone calls was, then, purely punitive, just as the pepper-spraying of the child-man had been born of a combination of opportunity, cruelty, ambivalence, and sport.† (source)
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Moving was a lesson in punitive anatomy.† (source)
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It's an unrelenting, punitive, miserable existence.† (source)
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EST isn't always used for punitive measures, as our nurse uses it, and it isn't pure sadism on the staff's part, either.† (source)
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The fine for killing alligators appears to be a conservation measure and means of controlling turtles, not a punitive action against the Negroes, though few Negroes realize this.† (source)
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No action could be taken when punitive squadrons joined the people they had been sent to punish.† (source)
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