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单词 impunity
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(ɪmpjuːnɪti)
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impunity in British English

(ɪmˈpjuːnɪtɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -ties
1. 
exemption or immunity from punishment or recrimination
2. 
exemption or immunity from unpleasant consequences
a successful career marked by impunity from early mistakes
3.  with impunity
Word origin
C16: from Latin impūnitās freedom from punishment, from impūnis unpunished, from im- (not) + poena punishment

impunity in American English

(ɪmˈpjunɪti)
noun
freedom or exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm
SIMILAR WORDS:  exˈemption
Word origin
Fr impunité < L impunitas < impunis, free from punishment < in-, without + poena, punishment: see pain

Examples of 'impunity' in a sentence
impunity

Yet corruption and impunity are thriving.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Experts said that fraudsters were acting with virtual impunity.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
No other group of workers would get away with it with such seeming impunity.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It became possible for individuals to espouse different values and to behave differently with at least relative impunity.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
He said: 'The energy companies are able to protect and improve their profit margins with seeming impunity.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She said: 'It is very damaging that a public figure could behave like this with seemingly relative impunity.
The Sun (2010)
(noun) 
These gangs operate with apparent impunity.
Synonyms
immunity
The police are offering immunity to witnesses who can help them.
freedom
freedom from government control
licence
Fiction gives her licence to go where the traditional biographer would not dare to tread.
permission
They cannot leave the country without permission.
Women and children have been given permission to leave.
liberty
Such a system would be a blow to the liberty of the people.
security
He could not remain long in a place of security.
exemption
new exemptions for students and the unwaged
dispensation
The committee were not prepared to grant special dispensation.
nonliability

Additional synonyms

in the sense of dispensation
Definition
any exemption from an obligation
The committee were not prepared to grant special dispensation.
Synonyms
exemption,
licence,
exception,
permission,
privilege,
relaxation,
immunity,
relief,
indulgence,
reprieve,
remission
in the sense of exemption
new exemptions for students and the unwaged
Synonyms
immunity,
freedom,
privilege,
relief,
exception,
discharge,
release,
dispensation,
absolution,
exoneration
in the sense of freedom
Definition
exemption or immunity
freedom from government control
Synonyms
exemption,
release,
relief,
privilege,
immunity,
impunity

Nearby words of
impunity

  • impugn
  • impulse
  • impulsive
  • impunity
  • impure
  • impurity
  • imputable

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