Synonyms:
punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
Meaning: the act of punishing
Synonyms:
penalty
Meaning: a payment required for not fulfilling a contract
Synonyms:
penalty
Meaning: the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition; "neglected his health and paid the penalty"
Usage examples
Penalty violation topsecret, death all concerned.
With every law, as Austin says, must go a penalty.
But he was paying the sad penalty of his father's sin.
But cheeking the police undoubtedly carries the severest penalty; and so it ought.
Mr. Clerk, will you tell us, please, what is the very stiffest penalty we can impose for each of these offences?
Let them knock and clamour; he had more urgent work in hand, and knew too well the penalty were he stupid enough to unbolt to them.
You are condemned to death, and you know, in sentences for crimes of that nature, the government is forbidden the right of commuting the penalty.
On the 21st of July, 1622, the same magistrates ordered the gipsies to leave the parish of Eysines within twenty-four hours, under penalty of the lash.
After having forbidden them, with a threat of six years at the galleys, to sojourn in Spain, Charles V. ordered them to leave Flanders under penalty of death.
He might have feasted to his heart's content, and incurred no penalty more serious than the disapproval of the tethered horse, had he not been quite so amazingly clever.