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
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A woman in the Menaechmi of Plautus, iv, 6, 1, complains justly of this double standard of morality: Nam si vir scortum duxit clam uxorem suam, Id si rescivit uxor, impune est viro.
From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Hecker, Eugene Arthur
We can only hope that she wears the war medal she has earned and is treated with proper respect, and we are confident that she still lives up to her great motto—Nemo me impune lacessit.
From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.
Attollat jam ipsa Urbs, Sanctorum hospita, religionis arx, depressum a gladiatorio servitio caput, seseque impune meminerit illam esse, quo ara foederis Christiani perpetua constituta sit: ubi Apostoli aeternum sedeant jura dicturi populis.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 by Various