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unpunished
/ ʌnˈpʌnɪʃt /
adjective
not receiving or having received a penalty or sanction as punishment for any crime or offence
Example Sentences
The most left-wing locales in America—elite college campuses—recently allowed open acts of violence and intimidation against Jews to go unpunished.
Each unpunished act dulls outrage until the mind struggles to believe in effective guardrails to democracy.
Left unpunished, Cicero claimed, this imperial tyranny would undermine faith in Rome’s institutions.
The new proposals are focused on more minor offences which happen frequently and have in the past gone largely unpunished.
But five years on, Mr Griffiths, the group's secretary, said they had been continually "frustrated" by further incidents which have since gone unpunished.
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