Definition of Punitive

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Definition of Punitive
	Punitive Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. Related Definitions: As, Awarding, Inflicting, Involving, Justice, Law, Of, Or, Pertaining, Punishment, Punitive, To

Punitive Quotations

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
John Cleese

There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.
Julius Streicher

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
Kenneth Blackwell

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
Romano Prodi

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.
Joseph McKenna

Punitive Translations

punitive in German is strafend
punitive in Italian is punitivo
punitive in Spanish is de castigo

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