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Meanings of punished in inglês
Subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
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Examples for "unpunished"
Examples for "unpunished"
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Thousands of serious crimes have gone unpunished by Mexico's weak justice system.
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The Guardian provides a perfect example of no good deed going unpunished.
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Police are poorly trained and equipped and violent crimes often go unpunished.
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The problem, Lekota says, is that this dereliction of duty goes unpunished.
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Critics have said the doctrine too often lets police brutality go unpunished.
Usage of punished in inglês
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In most cases of violence, the perpetrators were not punished, it said.
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Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said that anyone inflating prices would be punished.
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He believes they are political prisoners, being punished for their political beliefs.
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For example, school children were punished and ridiculed if caught speaking Flemish.
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Failing to confess something sufficiently shameful would result in them being punished.
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Fine Gael has been punished for its failures on health and housing.
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Recently, he had gotten caught several times and punished with cooking duty.
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He went immediately to Meeks, therefore, and demanded that I be punished.
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Some prisoners who have tested positive say they feel they're being punished.
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Institutions would be punished for providing implicit guarantees for asset management products.
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More than a million officials have been punished since he became president.
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I want the people who were directly responsible for framing me punished.
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But according to the law, yes, they will be punished very severely.'
14
You shall be punished; you shall enter the cage of the leopard.
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The Utes punished Washington State on deep routes throughout the first half.
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He who was guilty must be punished; and the punishments were terrible.
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Punished across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Australia
Common
New Zealand
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