punishing

Speech parts

1. punishing - Noun

2. punishing - Adjective

3. punishing - Verb

5. punishing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Punish

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

heavy hard arduous laborious toilsome grueling gruelling operose backbreaking correctional penal difficult sisyphean severe trying
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Antonyms

feminine blessing effortless duck soup excusing easy as ABC
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Phrases with the word

punishing decree

Examples

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them. Sydney Smith

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. James Russell Lowell

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette. Anthony Hopkins

Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied. Arthur Miller

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. Camille Paglia

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. Khaled Hosseini

Close letter words and terms

punishee punishement punisher punishing decree punishingly punishingness