Crossword-Solution: PENAL 5 letters, 131 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Penal a. Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes
and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
Penal a. Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the
penal code.
Penal a. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact
of offense.
Penal a. Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as,
a penal colony or settlement.

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Word Anagrams
PENAL anagram ALPEN, LAPEN, NEPAL, PALEN, PANEL, PLANE, PLENA

We have 131 clues for the answer “PENAL”

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"In the ___ Colony" (Kafka short story) 1 answer
Adjective for Devil's Island. 1 answer
Botany Bay, like 1 answer
Code for cons 1 answer
Code for the lawless 1 answer
Code or colony 1 answer
Code or colony leader 1 answer
Code or colony preceder 1 answer
Code or offense 1 answer
Colony or code 1 answer
Colony or law 1 answer
Colony to avoid 1 answer
Colony type 1 answer
Colony, sort of 1 answer
Concerned with corrections 1 answer
Concerning punishment 1 answer
Correctional 1 answer
Corrections-related 1 answer
Corrective, ideally 1 answer
Crime and punishment code 1 answer
Designating a certain code. 1 answer
Designed to be harsh 1 answer
Designed to punish 1 answer
Designed to teach a hard lesson, maybe 1 answer
Disciplinary, in a way 1 answer
For punishment 1 answer
Inflictive 1 answer
Involving punishment 1 answer
Jail-related 1 answer
Kafka's "In the ___ Colony" 1 answer
Kafka's "The ___ Colony" 1 answer
Kind of Colony Ancient Greek 1 answer
Kind of code or colony 1 answer
Kind of colony in Kafka 1 answer
Kind of colony or code 1 answer
Kind of reform or code 1 answer
Kind of servitude 1 answer
Legally punishable offense 1 answer
Like Kafka's colony 1 answer
Like certain corrections 1 answer
Like correctional facilities 1 answer
Like prisons 1 answer
Like some codes and colonies 1 answer
Like some colonies or codes 1 answer
Like some servitude 1 answer
Like the Botany Bay colony 1 answer
Made for corrections? 1 answer
Of jails 1 answer
Of prisons 1 answer
Of punishment 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PENAL (5)

Him the Almighty Power Hurld headlong flaming from th’ Ethereal Skie With hideous ruine and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defie th’ Omnipotent to Arms.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
They established a system of public education, built many new hospitals, founded institutions for the mentally and physically handicapped, and attempted to reform the penal system.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
The poor peasant, a Saxon by birth, was dragged forward to the bar, terrified at the penal consequences which he might have incurred by the guilt of having been cured of the palsy by a Jewish damsel.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
The American, Abe Slaney, was condemned to death at the winter assizes at Norwich, but his penalty was changed to penal servitude in consideration of mitigating circumstances, and the certainty that Hilton Cubitt had fired the first shot.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
Come, where are the handcuffs? Do you suppose I care what foolish things you do with me? Penal servitude will only be like waiting for her at a wayside station.
The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995

Quotes with PENAL (3)

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong…
Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22: A Memoir
Human existence is a penal colony; a sexually transmitted disease; a disappointment; nothing but suffering; “a sky-dive: out of a cunt into the grave”; a one-way ticket to the crematorium. “Nobody gets out of here alive”. Every day is a grim passage, a struggle through moments and hours of loneliness, boredom, emptiness, and self-loathing. I count myself among the pessimists. I believe that life is suffering. I force myself (my contraself) to look at other positions, but this…
Colin Feltham Keeping Ourselves in the Dark
Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal code, not the Ten Commandments … The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.
Carl Sagan The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 306 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).