Subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
Adjective
subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
imp. & p. p.
of Punish
Usage Examples
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
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Other Usage ExamplesLawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.
Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?
It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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