Punitive is valid Scrabble Word

Is punitive a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is punitive valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for PUNITIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

relating to punishment, also PUNITORY
inflicting or intended as punishment
(of a tax or other charge) extremely high
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
relating to punishment

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

inflicting punishment

Words related to PUNITIVE

punitively18 punitiveness17 punitory13

Words that contain PUNITIVE

punitively18 nonpunitive16 punitiveness17 punitivenesses19

How to use PUNITIVE in a sentence

But in substance the whole punitive armory is reduced to imprisonment, since fines are likewise convertible into so many days or months of imprisonment.
But the punitive measures taken by General Dyer, Col.
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of Nature must carry its punitive consequences with it.
Both were eligible for the militia, and both were drafted to serve in the punitive expedition that was despatched from California against the farmers of Missouri.
Hints that were untrue, of course, were given of insubordination all over the land, crudely disguised with complacent references to punitive measures to be taken.
This threat only aroused new fires of scorn and vituperation, and Miss Tate informed her guest that, should he ever attempt the punitive measures described, Mr.
Lazare and similar prisons, in addition to giving solid promise of improvement in the punitive system of France.
Thus the sanction of international law was given to punitive expeditions into alien territory.
A punitive expedition under the command of General Pershing was quickly sent out to capture the offenders.
The purpose of the book, then, is to justify the wisdom and goodness of God in matters of human suffering and especially to show that all suffering is not punitive.

The fear of set limitations, of punitive and restrictive laws imposed by Fate upon human life was visibly fading in human minds.
Khubilai could not brook this outrage and in 1292 despatched a punitive expedition.
In the time of the Wei, Kucha again got into trouble with China and was brought to order by another punitive expedition in 448.
It was to avenge this that Persia determined on a punitive expedition against the Greeks.
They existed mainly by brigandage as their sheep-stealing ballads tell, and the history of raid and punitive expedition is much like that of our Indian frontier.
The punitive expedition into Mexico was a case in point.
We must have a real punitive expedition, and not one of your imitations.
Of course, there were punitive measures, unreasonable and unjust, and some men were afraid to be just if the railroad would in any way be benefited.
A punitive expedition, led by the same officer, afterward met with some success, but American popularity suffered in consequence.
If they succeeded, they were to wheel over the city and drop the second kappa-bomb, also all the remaining explosive, by way of punitive measures.
It is interesting to learn, however, that a punitive expedition was despatched by the British Government to avenge the insult, as a result of which Mr.
Preparations in rather ostentatious fashion were therefore made for a punitive expedition, and in the summer of 1684 the governor with his troops was at Cataraqui.
It angered the whole Iroquois confederacy without, having sufficiently impressed the Indians with the punitive power of the French.
This was the first time he had invited the use of our knuckles for his punitive practices.
The laws were punitive and vindictive rather than reformatory or remedial, criminal rather than civil.
The Government therefore, sent a punitive expedition into the country.
Punishment of this nature still remains punitive as it ought to do, but it is at the same time a kind of punishment from which something may be learned.
Almost every month there are punitive raids made from the towns, and brigands are captured and put to death.

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