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punitive adjective avenging, castigatory, disciplinary, penal, penalizing, punishing, punitory, retributive, talionic, vindictive Associated concepts: punitive action, punitive damages See also: disciplinary, penal, severe, vindictive How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If Charlie has aroused keener ire among adult readers than the other Dahls, it may be because it is so methodical, so orderly in its punitiveness. Patterns of punitiveness in women with eating disorders: International Journal of Eating Disorders, 17, 365-371. He would not have been alone; indeed, as a few white Southerners began to shrink back from the punitiveness of a God Who ruled in terroristic rage, one of their savants objected to such cowering. |
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