impune
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Wait a minute, he has basically used his answer to impune my integrity.
From Time ● Nov. 14, 2015
To paraphrase the Scottish national motto, Nemo me impune lactessit.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lion is his crest, you know, Columbia stooping to caress it, With vi et armis writ below, Nemo impune me lacessit; His motto, as you've read already, Semper paratus—always Teddy!
From Misrepresentative Men by Harry Graham
Whoever trifled with him was apt to learn sooner than he wished that nemo me impune lacessit was a saying which was to be taken very literally from Johnson's mouth.
From Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Cann Bailey
The thistle is the order for dignity and antiquity; the veritable 'nemo me impune lacessit' of chivalry.
From The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
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