impunity
pronunciation
How to pronounce impunity in British English:
UK [ɪmˈpjuːnəti]
How to pronounce impunity in American English:
US [ɪmˈpjuːnəti]
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- Noun:
- exemption from punishment or loss
Word Origin
- impunity (n.)
- 1530s, from Middle French impunité (14c.) and directly from Latin impunitatem (nominative impunitas) "freedom from punishment, omission of punishment," also "rashness, inconsideration," from impunis "unpunished, without punishment," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + poena "punishment" (see penal).
Example
- 1. Yet employers can refuse to hire left-handers with impunity .
- 2. Crimes with impunity is unfair .
- 3. Impunity seemed to be eroding .
- 4. On the other hand the country does have a constituency of modernisers : people depressed by interrelated woes , including a malfunctioning justice system , a kleptocratic civil service and impunity for the corrupt .
- 5. The culture of impunity that once plagued bulgaria has largely gone .