penal

adjective

ˈpē-nᵊl How to pronounce penal (audio)
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inflicting, involving, or serving as punishment Australia was once a penal colony

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Recent Examples of penal The presiding judge in the New York trial in which writer E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room wrote that Carroll failed to prove that she was raped within the narrow scope of the New York penal law. — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024 But when a president, at the end of his term in office, in the interest of fairness, corrects mistakes made by the penal system during his or a previous president's term, that is often a grace note of his time in office. — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024 The county prisoners held at the site were moved to Milwaukee County's new penal farm in what was then the Town of Franklin. — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024 The authorities pledged that the facility would be run in accordance with standard legal norms and penal practices, unlike its predecessor. — Richard J. Evans, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017 See All Example Sentences for penal

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