Crossword-Solution: PUNITIVE 8 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Punitive a. Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or
inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.

We have 12 clues for the answer “PUNITIVE”

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Inflicting or intended as a punishment 1 answer
Concerned with penalties. 1 answer
Damages modifier 1 answer
Kind of damages, in law 1 answer
Like some damages 1 answer
Like some legal damages 1 answer
Penalizing. 1 answer
penalising 6 answers
CASTIGATORY 6 answers
Retaliatory 8 answers
disciplinary 8 answers
Penal 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PUNITIVE (3)

YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
The tide had been at its highest when the children had arrived at Jagborough Cove, so there had been no sands to play on—a circumstance that the aunt had overlooked in the haste of organising her punitive expedition.
Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki 2011
Once when we were lying just below Whampo, the captain took nearly every officer and nearly the whole ship’s crew on a punitive expedition up the Canton river.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone Henry J. Coke 2012

Quotes with PUNITIVE (3)

We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.
Brian D. McLaren
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)
Saul Bellow Herzog
In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which displayed collections of minerals in a kind of closet or chamber which would, at the push of a button, darken. Then ultraviolet lights would begin to glow and the minerals would seem to come alive, new colors, new possibilities, and architectures revealed. Plain stones became fantastic, “futuristic…” Of course there wasn’t any black light in the center of the earth, in the c…
Mark Doty Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1942–2018).