Mispunish

Quick meaning: Mispunish is a verb meaning To punish inappropriately; to give the wrong amount or type of punishment, or to punish someone for an offense they did not commit.

Meaning

To punish inappropriately; to give the wrong amount or type of punishment, or to punish someone for an offense they did not commit.

Example Sentences

Multiple punitive damages are likely to mispunish defendants.

But what is a guilty person's complaint against an unreliable procedure? That it is too likely to mispunish him?

Some people do not correctly apply the natural law, or they tend to be biased when judging in their own cases, or they tend to mispunish, overpunish, etc.

Ordinarily, hate censorship theorists would be the first to distrust a law that could so mispunish – but this is not the case when it comes to hate speech law.

Word Forms

• mispunishes
• mispunishing
• mispunished

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mispay, misapply, mispen, mispin, mispick, mispunch.

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