punishable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for punishable
Adjective
  • Your basic attacks include light and heavy strikes, chargeable special moves, a throw, and a jumping attack.
    Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 4 Mar. 2025
  • So nearly 30 years after Bell’s death, Charlotte-Mecklenburg are changing his classification from a suspect in Cornett’s disappearance to a chargeable suspect in her murder.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • During the Donald Trump administration, when another president was under investigation for impeachable and indictable offenses, public opinion of the Nixon pardon shifted again, with Americans perfectly polarized: 38% in favor, 38% against.
    Ken Hughes, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Peel Regional Police arrested a 54-year-old Air Canada employee and charged him with a conspiracy to commit an indictable offense and theft over $5,000.
    Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • Both were arrested for evading arrest, and Thomas faces an additional charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Mar. 2025
  • White went on to plead guilty to a felony charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and sentenced to almost nine years in federal prison.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Official fireworks shows took place over the city, and illegal pyrotechnics lit up the sky everywhere in between.
    Lisa Beebe, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • Louisville police say anything that goes into the air or explodes is illegal for average citizens.
    James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2017
Adjective
  • When Natalia Grace was adopted from Ukraine into the Barnett family as a six-year-old child, no one could have foreseen that the situation would devolve into something that spurred court battles, criminal charges, and multiple documentaries and shows.
    Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • If convicted of criminal infringement of a copyright, Strange faces a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • She was arrested and charged with assault in the first degree, kidnapping in the second degree, unlawful restraint in the first degree, cruelty to persons and reckless endangerment in the first degree on March 12.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
  • In January a Bronx jury found Officer Kenneth Hood, 38, guilty of reckless endangerment and official misconduct for the incident in the George R. Vierno Center on Nov. 27, 2019, which left 18-year-old Nicholas Feliciano paralyzed.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Brian Pepin’s resignation, in either way, was a costly, irresponsible action and the board’s position exacerbated the damage.
    Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The bottom line: Schumer has gone on a media tour to defend his actions, arguing that shutting down the government would have been irresponsible.
    Stephen Neukam, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Gabriel Skyler Caswell, 23, pleaded guilty to 12 additional counts of animal cruelty and was sentenced to 10 extra years in prison on Tuesday, March 18, said Parker County District Attorney Jeff Swain, per CBS News, WFAA-TV and the Fort-Worth Star Telegram.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • However, after a five-year investigation, Michael was found not guilty in October 2022 on three counts of neglect and conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Punishable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/punishable. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.

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