unpunished
- adjective
- /ʌnˈpʌnɪʃt/
- "No sin goes unpunished in this life."
- go unpunished
- unpunished deed
- good deed goes unpunished
And you will be, you will be, you know, no good deed will go unpunished.
- And you will be, you will be, you know, no good deed will go unpunished.
- We're willing to allow a foreign power to come in and meddle in our affairs and have that meddling go unpunished.
- Good people are get punished for no reason and bad people go unpunished.
- This is prime example that no good deed goes unpunished because the punishment that is that Monday morning is criminal.
- No good Glasses Man, your sins cannot go unpunished.
Examples
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A particular focus was on those perpetrators who were left unpunished.
Academic text (2017) -
As a result, most violations go unpunished.
Academic text (2011) -
But most of the time, it goes unpunished.
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Did you think it would go unpunished?
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His parents say unpunished bullying at the school led him to take his own life.
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When a crime goes unpunished, the world is unbalanced.
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Yes, it is difficult to bear injustice, and often those responsible for it go unpunished, even religious superiors.
Blog text (10) -
Murder, extortion, and land theft have gone unpunished, often perpetrated by those in the government.
Blog text (27) -
Poland's example shows that cronyism often goes unpunished or even barely noticed, except when scandal is revealed.
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When a crime goes unpunished, it encourages others to commit similar acts.
Synonyms
Not punished for doing something wrong
Antonyms
How Punished
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unpunished begins with un- meaning 'not' and the rest is like the word penalty, which means 'punishment'. So unpunished literally means 'not given a penalty', which is why it describes someone or something that did not receive punishment.