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impunity

/im-pyoo-ni-tee/US // ɪmˈpyu nɪ ti //UK // (ɪmˈpjuːnɪtɪ) //

有罪不罚,有罪不罚现象,有罪不罚的现象,不受惩罚

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : exemption from punishment.
    • : immunity from detrimental effects, as of an action.

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Examples

  • They’ve tasted better now and aren’t likely to accept a return to a culture of impunity for sellers and manufacturers of fake goods and contaminated food.

  • That he shouts this down the street at the marauding policeman’s retreating back, who strides away with self-satisfied impunity, drives home the fact that this isn’t any other restaurant.

  • As the superintendent of Southwestern College, I was hired by a concerned Governing Board to move the college culture from impunity to accountability, disrespect to respect, inequity to equity and silos to student-centeredness.

  • The decision to take youth sports teams on the road allows teams to skirt state rules with relative impunity — as long as no one gets sick.

  • At the same time, the public health department recently announced a plan to overhaul inspections by fostering a more collaborative relationship between facilities and their overseers, a change that critics argue would lead to nursing home impunity.

  • It would inject a threat of accountability into power, and upend the impunity wartime leaders had operated under for years.

  • Once again he could throw his fastball for strikes with impunity--for six or seven innings at least.

  • During exercises, it has shown itself in exercises to be able to fly inside enemy territory with near impunity.

  • Cameras show the gunmen roaming the mall, shooting and killing with impunity.

  • It was arrogant,” he says, adding, “If you go along with the status quo in South Carolina, you can break the law with impunity.

  • There are some houses into which one can never enter with impunity, from the want of due ventilation.

  • He said very truly that long impunity had introduced universal laxity, and had made conspiracy the most attractive of occupations.

  • Food that one patient could eat with impunity brought out a beautiful eczema or urticaria on another patient.

  • Widows and orphans well remember the impunity given to the assassins of their loved ones in the name of "concord."

  • He was remitted to Bedlam, and became an awful warning that God will not always be insulted with impunity.