Adjective
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism. Julius Streicher
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day. Dwight D. Eisenhower
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice. Thomas Szasz
Above the punitive city hangs this iron spider; and the criminal who is to be thus crucified by the new law is parricide. Michel Foucault
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. Rick Perry