Impunity
Impunity [ im-PYOO-ni-tee ] | |
[ noun ] | |
MEANING : | |
1. exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, loss or penalty 2. immunity to the repercussions of an action | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | |
Diplomats have various advantages over common people, impunity being the foremost. | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | |
The group called it a "positive, but still insufficient, step in the fight against impunity" in the country, and said "many others -- numbering perhaps in the several hundreds -- must be investigated in Sierra Leone." |