Unpunished is an English word with synonyms like uncorrected or undisciplined. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Unpunished in a sentence
Unpunished meaning
Not punished
Synonyms of Unpunished
Using Unpunished
- The main meaning on this page is: Not punished
- Useful related words include: unadmonished, unchastened, unrebuked, unreproved.
- In the example corpus, unpunished often appears in combinations such as: go unpunished, went unpunished, goes unpunished.
Context around Unpunished
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 9 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unpunished
- In this selection, "unpunished" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, went, gone, goes and don stand out and add context to how "unpunished" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include not go unpunished and also went unpunished. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unpunished" sits close to words such as accesses, acrimonious and adeyemi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unpunished
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Frey couldn’t let it go unpunished. (7 words)
No good deed has gone unpunished these past three years. (10 words)
Most murders go unpunished, don't you think?' said Daniel. (10 words)
There was no review of the tackle that felled Vest, while the Reds are privately seething after a high, no-arms tackle on a runaway James O'Connor from Highlanders five-eighth Eddie Burns also went unpunished. (37 words)
It comes just months after the Department for Transport invited local authorities to apply for new powers to enforce traffic 'offences' which largely go unpunished as police don't have enough resources to focus on them. (36 words)
The errors kept coming but Leeds failed to make them pay before half-time with sloppy play of their own, Hoy twice going unpunished after dropping high kicks from Frawley close to Castleford's line. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
And they felt as though they should have had a penalty shortly after their goal when a handball in the box went unpunished.
It comes just months after the Department for Transport invited local authorities to apply for new powers to enforce traffic 'offences' which largely go unpunished as police don't have enough resources to focus on them.
Nicaragua has recently seen a string of murders of indigenous people by settlers, many of which go unpunished.
No good deed has gone unpunished these past three years.
PC Harriet Wilson-Hill, of West Mercia Police, said: “The outcome of this case should serve as a reminder that assaulting an emergency service employee will not go unpunished.
Several victims have since to say that Mr Jordan’s alleged participation in the culture of silence that enabled Strauss’ abuse to go unpunished should have disqualified him from the speakership.
The Government says that upskirting does not go unpunished in England and Wales.
The PDP insisted that the conduct of Mallam Ari must not go unpunished.
There was no review of the tackle that felled Vest, while the Reds are privately seething after a high, no-arms tackle on a runaway James O'Connor from Highlanders five-eighth Eddie Burns also went unpunished.
They do say that no good deed goes unpunished, and in total, you were left without a bank account for 11 days.
We’ve all come to be experts on ridiculous time wasting which goes totally unpunished by weak third tier officials.
Alejandro Moreno, the leader of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, lamented the killing and noted that 34 murders of members of the Triqui community remain unpunished.
Diddy’s connections to figures like Oprah Winfrey and Rupert Murdoch provide him with protection and power, ensuring that his crimes go unpunished.
Frey couldn’t let it go unpunished.
Liverpool also felt anger after Moises Caicedo went unpunished for an ugly challenge on Ryan Gravenberch, who left on a stretcher.
Most murders go unpunished, don't you think?' said Daniel.
Our democratic republic cannot function if we allow this to go unpunished.
Speaking at a meeting with servicemen at a military hospital in Moscow, Putin said that the strikes, which came amid intensified Russian air assaults against Ukrainian cities Kyiv and Kharkiv, “will not go unpunished”.
The errors kept coming but Leeds failed to make them pay before half-time with sloppy play of their own, Hoy twice going unpunished after dropping high kicks from Frawley close to Castleford's line.
The situation is worsened by acute poverty, with many victims going unpunished and sometimes marrying off to their attackers.
Common combinations with unpunished
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- go unpunished 39×
- went unpunished 8×
- goes unpunished 8×
- unpunished and 8×
- gone unpunished 4×
- unpunished for 4×
- unpunished as 2×
- unpunished in 2×
- unpunished by 2×
- remain unpunished 2×