Punitive describes inflicting a punishment. If someone takes punitive action against you, you'll probably whine and complain you're in trouble and you're about to get punished.
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment;
Adjective
inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive damages"
a.
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or
inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
Punitive
If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence.
We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment;
Usage Examples
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
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