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unpunished

/ ʌnˈpʌnɪʃt /

adjective

  1. not receiving or having received a penalty or sanction as punishment for any crime or offence

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Sharing graphic images of soldiers with blood on their faces, they warned "acts like these will not go unpunished".

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“Let the guilty rejoice and go unpunished, and the innocent suffer ruin and desolation,” she replies.

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They point to earlier bouts of sectarian bloodshed that have gone unpunished.

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The governor of Oaxaca has condemned this latest killing, adding that the crime would not go unpunished.

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She said she would ensure the murders would not go unpunished.

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