Crossword-Solution: PUNISHES 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Grounds for bad behavior, say 1 answer
Penalizes 1 answer
Spanks, perhaps 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PUNISHES (5)

She is my happiness—she is my torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me, too! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a millionfold the power of retribution for my sin? Ye shall not take her! I will die first!” “My poor woman,” said the not unkind old minister, “the child shall be well cared for—far better than thou canst do for it.” “God gave her into my keeping!” repeated Hester Prynne, raising her voice almost to a shriek.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Whenever God punishes a man, Henry of Huntington knows why it was done, and tells us; and his pen is eloquent with admiration; but when a man has earned punishment, and escapes, he does not explain.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
How so? When a democracy which is thirsting for freedom has evil cupbearers presiding over the feast, and has drunk too deeply of the strong wine of freedom, then, unless her rulers are very amenable and give a plentiful draught, she calls them to account and punishes them, and says that they are cursed oligarchs.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Lily knew that there is nothing society resents so much as having given its protection to those who have not known how to profit by it: it is for having betrayed its connivance that the body social punishes the offender who is found out.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
The master punishes them when he chooses, kills them with impunity, and sells them and theirs like so many cattle.
What is Property? P. J. Proudhon 1995

Quotes with PUNISHES (3)

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Albert Einstein
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts t…
George Saunders CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
It’s tempting to imagine happiness as a state of mind caused by whatever is happening in your life. By that way of thinking, we’re largely victims of the cold, cold world that sometimes rewards our good work and sometimes punishes us for no reason. That’s a helpless worldview and it can blind you to a simple system for being happier. Science has done a good job in recent years of demonstrating that happiness isn’t as dependent on your circumstances as you might think. For exa…
Scott Adams How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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