punishable
adjective
liable to or deserving punishment.
unpunishable
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a word derived from
punishable.
Example Sentences
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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
Those forced to respond claim to have merely parroted the official line verbatim -- a transparent but unpunishable form of dissent.
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 Harry Kemp
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 John Ruskin
And this is the more strongly to be held because we are not concerned with a deed that is unpunishable, and permissible by law, as I have said.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
