punitive
pyooh nuh tiv
- a inflicting punishment
punitive justice
punitive damages
- The Supreme Court upholds a punitive $1 million jury verdict.
- My entirely conventional impulse would be to go easy on Andrea Yates as one acting under the compulsion of circumstances; and to be enraged and punitive about the cold-blooded .
- Despatches from Cairo reported that the French have destroyed nearly a third of Damascus and burned 4,000 houses, during "punitive bombardments" and raids upon the rebellious .