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retributive

/ri-trib-yuh-tiv/US // rɪˈtrɪb yə tɪv //

报应性,报应性的,报复性的,报复性

Related Words

punitive惩罚性,惩罚性的,处罚性,处罚性的corrective纠正性,矫正性,纠正,纠正的punishing惩罚性,惩罚性的,惩罚,处罚reformatory感化院,教养院,劳改所,劳教所chastening责罚,责备,督责,训诫penalizing惩罚性的,惩罚性,处罚,惩罚

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inpenal
Synonyms
punitive惩罚性,惩罚性的,处罚性,处罚性的chastening责罚,责备,督责,训诫corrective纠正性,矫正性,纠正,纠正的penalizing惩罚性的,惩罚性,处罚,惩罚punishing惩罚性,惩罚性的,惩罚,处罚punitory惩罚性,惩罚性的,惩罚,惩戒性reformatory感化院,教养院,劳改所,劳教所

Examples

  • A pure retributive sentence would mean that Chauvin should get the death penalty, which Minnesota has outlawed since 1911.

  • I felt that Alla would sooner or later urge me on to be the humble means of a retributive justice overtaking him.

  • A general shout proclaimed the acquiescence of the other seamen in this act of retributive justice.

  • Here are no expressions of malice, no invocations even of God's retributive justice, not a complaint of suffering wrongfully!

  • Sadly and prayerfully while she slept lifted he the retributive mallet and beat in her brittle pate.

  • Is there no retributive justice dogging his heels, from which all the glories and adulations of earth cannot shield him?

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