Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Exemption from punishment or penalty.
- noun Freedom or exemption from injury, suffering, or discomfort.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable, law Exemption from
punishment . - noun uncountable Freedom from
punishment orretribution ; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun exemption from punishment or loss
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And the term "impunity" has been removed in every instance.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed GLORIA GALLOWAY 2011
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The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has been very vocal about the massacre and critical of what it calls impunity in the killings of journalists in the Philippines.
Defense Attorneys Acknowledge Journalists Died in 2009 Philippines Massacre 2011
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The attack prompted journalists to protest against what they call the impunity that allows such attacks to take place.
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The idea that the federal government would allow them to be murdered with impunity is unacceptable.
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Anybody that wants to cross our borders and live here anonymously with impunity is welcome.
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Maybe you should be less of a hack and admit that a system where politicians lie with impunity is unworkable and undemocratic.
Matthew Yglesias » Are Televised Negotiations Even Possible? 2010
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This week's poster child for the cop culture of impunity is Constable Mike Wasylyshen of the Edmonton Police Force, er, Service.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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This criticism that Romney seems to dish out with impunity is bording on TREASON .....
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On 6 May 2002, the US government took the unprecedented step of repudiating its signature of the Rome Statute and began a worldwide campaign to weaken the Court and to obtain impunity for all US nationals from the jurisdiction of the Court.
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And the fight against impunity is one of these implications.
sonofgroucho commented on the word impunity
Nemo me impune lacessit.
April 18, 2007
cr2thfairy commented on the word impunity
None shall injure me with impunity.
The motto for Scotland, noted with the thistle, the national symbol.
June 10, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word impunity
imp + unity.
February 13, 2010