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UK
/ɪmpjˈuːnɪti/
]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpjunɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpjunɪti/ ]
NOUN
- exemption from punishment or loss
How To Use impunity In A Sentence
- The ferries, warships, water taxis, huge container vessels, yachts and fishing tinnies ply with impunity one of the greatest anchorages and working harbours in the world.
- This criticism that Romney seems to dish out with impunity is bording on TREASON ..... Romney accuses Obama of not protecting troops
- They continue to break the law with impunity.
- The Rara bands come out of Voodoo societies that have gay congregations where gay men are permitted to cross-dress with impunity. Irene Monroe: The Roots Of Voodoo's Acceptance Of Gays
- The impunity of police and denial of due process to victims is disturbing to rights activists.
- If the lowest ruffian may stab your good name with impunity in England, will you be so uncandid as to exclaim against Italy for the practice of common assassination? The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- As long as we remain complacent in the face of injustice ... it will continue with impunity. Another Face of Brutality
- What struck me most, after this long passage of time, is what we deem “permissible” on the screen today: We can — with impunity — rape, skewer, torture, vilify, scarify, plunge fangs into carotid arteries, sodomize…women can reveal frontal nudity within a half-inch of genitalia; men can stand frontally nude with only a hand cupped over the thingy…but only frontal. Buzzine » Tushy Tarts, Smelly Farts…
- Most irritating were the German rocket launchers, which miraculously decimate infantry and armour alike with impunity.
- On 6 May 2002, the US government took the unprecedented step of repudiating its signature of the Rome Statute and began a worldwide campaign to weaken the Court and to obtain impunity for all US nationals from the jurisdiction of the Court. Think Progress » EU wants answers on secret prisons.