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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

I perpetrated a hundred misdemeanours, most of them unpunishable elsewhere, but of serious import in schools and barracks, where discipline is to be maintained.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry

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 McGovern, John

Crime cannot be hindered by punishment; it will always find some shape and outlet, unpunishable or unclosed.

From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by Ruskin, John