scot-free
Speech parts
1. scot-free - Adjective
2. scot-free - Adverb
3. scot-free - Phrase
Meaning
Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlternative names
scot free
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery Can leave the mother, murdered at her door, To crawl in her own blood, and go scot-free.
I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?