punitively

Adverb

Meaning

in a punishing manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

penally punitorily dear penalty punishment strictly criminally severely toughly harshly dearly retributive mercilessly ruggedly vindictively
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Antonyms

leniently

Examples

“GAJE will once again publicly urge Queen’s Park to finally take the appropriate steps to do the moral, right thing: bring a measure of fairness to a patently unfair and punitively discriminatory educational funding system.” Source: Internet

The worst thing we can do is to respond punitively. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

punitive measures punitive populism punitive relief punitiveness punitorily punitory