punitivein a sentence
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They are suing to recover their cost and for punitive damages.
punitive = for punishment (beyond payment for financial loss)
- 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)
- 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)
- Death row is the most restrictive punitive confinement permitted.† (source)
- The Commander, instead, smells of mothballs, or is this odor some punitive form of aftershave?† (source)
- 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)
- Or I shall have to take some severe punitive measures.† (source)
- Moving was a lesson in punitive anatomy.† (source)
- 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)
- "The point of the suspension isn't punitive," he said quietly.† (source)
- Our cultural heritage will be lost to a whole generation, excluded by a punitive financial barrier.† (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)
- 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)
- No action could be taken when punitive squadrons joined the people they had been sent to punish.† (source)
- It's an unrelenting, punitive, miserable existence.† (source)
- He had been trained in coded field communications to take advantage of his obvious intelligence, and to avoid the likely consequences of his physical immaturity if he were an infantry regular, which would be certain injury and possible death at the punitive hands of superiors, long before an enemy confronted him.† (source)
- Physical modesty in such cramped quarters 1 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)
- It was a more effective, and more demoralizing, treatment than any punitive action could have been.† (source)
- And as if punitive taxation, the destruction of their property, and all their other sufferings were not enough, they are subjected to pogroms, insults, and accusations that they lack patriotism.† (source)
- When I first went to death row in December 1983, America was in the early stages of a radical transformation that would turn us into an unprecedentedly harsh and punitive nation and result in mass imprisonment that has no historical parallel.† (source)
- Fainting repeatedly from loss of blood, the dying man told them in a faltering voice of the tortures and atrocities perpetrated by Vitsyn's investigating and punitive squads.† (source)
- But just because of it, the punitive organs that are to be abolished will be in all the greater hurry to settle their local accounts before the end, and they will be all the more savage.† (source)
- Terrified by the punitive measures of the Whites, all the peasants of the surrounding countryside had fled from their homes and now sought to join the partisans, whom they regarded as their natural protectors.† (source)
- He never declared his war aims, and I do not to this day know whether they were purely punitive—whether he had really at the back of his mind some geopolitical idea of getting me out of the country, as my Aunt Philippa had been driven to Bordighera and cousin Melchior to Darwin, or whether, as seems most likely, he fought for the sheer love of a battle in which indeed he shone.† (source)
- And she would make me stand and endure a punitive silence, a comment on myself and my foolishness, overgrown and long-legged in my short pants, large-headed, with black mass of hair and cleft chin—a source of jokes.† (source)
- He was saying that Christianity originally was aimed at the lowly and slaves, and that was why crucifixion and nailing and all such punitive grandeur of martyrdom were necessary.† (source)
- Mason's manner was snarling, punitive, sinister, bitterly sarcastic.† (source)
- Presently Troutham grew tired of his punitive task, and depositing the quivering boy on his legs, took a sixpence from his pocket and gave it him in payment for his day's work, telling him to go home and never let him see him in one of those fields again.† (source)
- Nevertheless, on account of the nature of the contents which seemed to both the warden and the Rev. Guilford to be more charitable and punitive than otherwise, and because plainly, if not verifiably, it was from that Miss X of repute or notoriety in connection with his trial, it was decided, after due deliberation, that Clyde should be permitted to read it—even that it was best that he should.† (source)
- He means to test us, and something punitive comes next.† (source)
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