punishable
adjective
liable to or deserving punishment.
unpunishable
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a word derived from
punishable.
Example Sentences
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With A.I. agents, we’re now facing the prospect of “uninvestigable, irremediable, unpunishable crime,” as Ohm put it.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
Those forced to respond claim to have merely parroted the official line verbatim -- a transparent but unpunishable form of dissent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet, admiring his handsome land in the fall of 1951, the U.S. citizen was aware that a sense of something wrong nagged at his consciousness, a sense of evil unpunished and perhaps unpunishable.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the evil is not very alarming, it is better, indeed, to let it alone, and not to turn friendship into a system of lawful and unpunishable impertinence.
From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
The proclamation was against public vice and immorality of various sorts which were unpunishable by law.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
