punitive Definition

penal, correctional, penitentiary, punitory, retaliatory, coercive, punish, sanctions, punishing, dissuasive, deterrent, punishment, remedial, disincentive, criminal, oppressive, repressive, corrective, disciplinary, severe, crippling, suppressive, penalise, malicious, exemplary, punishable, malevolent, unpunished, law-enforcement, penalising, draconian, retributive, unjust, discriminatory, unjustified, unreasonable, vindictive, unjustifiable, unfair, restrictive, compensatory, wrongful, egregious, reprehensible, unwarranted, inequitable, unconstitutional, unconscionable, disproportionate, unilateral, counterproductive, distortive, onerous, harsher, lenient, confiscatory, arbitrary, frivolous, discriminative, imposable, regressive, protectionist, irresponsible, reformative, prescriptive, justifiable, lex talionis, callous, mitigatory, misguided, unwarrantable, highhanded, reactionary, noneconomic, noncomplying, perverse, excessive, monetary, preemptory, wrongheaded, confrontational, burdensome, unsporting, shortsighted, opprobrious, iniquitous, unmerited, reckless, anticompetitive, flagrant, blameworthy, drastic, exclusionary, illogical, uncalled, irrational, hypocritical, discouraging, condign, vengeable,