Penal Synonyms

pēnəl
Subject to punishment by law
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. punitive
  2. corrective
  3. retributive
  4. reformatory
  5. punishing
  6. punitory
  7. causing suffering
  8. chastening
  9. castigatory
  10. condign
  11. disciplinary
  12. punishable
  13. expiatory
  14. correctional
  15. penitentiary
  16. reformative
  17. retributory
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. amerce
  2. penalize
  3. punish

Penal Sentence Examples

  • Siberia was for many years a penal colony.

  • The penal code was unified and reformed in 1890.

  • In spite of the gravity of the charges formulated against many prominent men, the report merely deplored and disapproved of their conduct, without proposing penal proceedings.

  • The penal discipline of to-day, much modified and varied it is true, may be largely traced to it.

  • The recidivist class is for those previously sentenced to penal servitude or whose record shows them to have been guilty of grave and persistent crime.

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