Thesaurus / punish
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Silver said in December that he hoped that players would stand for the anthem, but that he wouldn’t punish players who protested.
THE NBA’S WEEK OF CONTROVERSIES SHOW HOW HARD LIFE IS OUTSIDE OF THE BUBBLEBEN GOLLIVERFEBRUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTStudents will not be punished for using single-use plastics on campus, but school officials plan to offer enough alternatives so that students will not need to rely on plastics, Chapple said.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY COMMITS TO SINGLE-USE-PLASTIC BANLAUREN LUMPKINFEBRUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTTo his credit, when he was in a position to financially punish me for saying no, he did not.
OUTING A CELEB SEX PEST AND MOURNING LARRY FLYNT … SORTAEUGENE ROBINSONFEBRUARY 11, 2021OZYThose videos and other stuff happened before any of us were on the team, and it feels like we’re being punished.
FORMER CHEERLEADERS SETTLE WITH WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM AS PROGRAM’S FUTURE IS IN DOUBTBETH REINHARDFEBRUARY 10, 2021WASHINGTON POSTEach practice session was planned to the minute, and players were punished if they were late.
MARTY SCHOTTENHEIMER, ONE OF THE NFL’S WINNINGEST COACHES, DIES AT 77MATT SCHUDELFEBRUARY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt is a road map and a clarion call for a healthier, more beautiful, more caring, less-punishing society.
WHAT ‘DEFUND THE POLICE’ REALLY MEANSSIMON BALTOFEBRUARY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHunkered down at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, he has been quietly urging on efforts to punish those Republicans who turned against him during his final weeks in office while deciding against immediate comment on Greene or Cheney, aides say.
REPUBLICANS WORRY THEIR BIG TENT WILL MEAN BIG PROBLEMS IN 2022 ELECTIONSMICHAEL SCHERER, JOSH DAWSEYFEBRUARY 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTDesperate workers rush to delivery app jobs to find low pay and punishing rulesThe FTC alleges Amazon changed the way it paid drivers in late 2016, lowering the hourly rate and then used customer tips to make up the difference.
AMAZON SHORTCHANGED DRIVERS $61.7 MILLION IN TIPS. NOW IT HAS SETTLED WITH THE FTC TO PAY UPJAY GREENEFEBRUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTGameStop was picked because traders thought they could punish shorts, remember, not because it was going to bring a revolution to video game distribution.
IN 2021 EVERYONE GETS 15 MINUTES OF WEALTHALEX WILHELMFEBRUARY 2, 2021TECHCRUNCHIn November, voters punished Democrats and cut their majority in the House in a surprise move.
THIS TIME, IMPEACHMENT SEEMS TO BE A NO-BRAINER FOR DEMOCRATSPHILIP ELLIOTTJANUARY 12, 2021TIMEWORDS RELATED TO PUNISH
- abase
- admonish
- afflict
- berate
- call down
- castigate
- chastise
- chide
- cow
- curb
- discipline
- exprobate
- fulminate against
- have on the carpet
- humble
- objurgate
- penalize
- punish
- rake over the coals
- rebuke
- reprehend
- repress
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- restrain
- scold
- scourge
- soften
- subdue
- take to task
- tame
- tongue-lash
- try
- upbraid
- adjudge
- belittle
- blow whistle on
- call down
- castigate
- censure
- chide
- come down on
- criticize
- damn
- decry
- denounce
- denunciate
- deprecate
- depreciate
- disapprove
- disparage
- doom
- find fault with
- find guilty
- frame
- hang something on
- judge
- knock
- lay at one's door
- let have it
- name
- pass sentence on
- pin it on
- point finger at
- pronounce
- proscribe
- punish
- put away
- put down
- reprehend
- reproach
- reprobate
- reprove
- send up
- send up the river
- sentence
- skin
- thumbs down on
- upbraid
- alters
- ameliorates
- amends
- betters
- changes
- clean up
- clean up act
- cures
- debugs
- doctors
- does over
- edits
- emends
- fiddles with
- fixes up
- gets with it
- goes over
- helps
- improves
- launders
- makes over
- makes right
- makes up for
- mends
- pays dues
- picks up
- polishes
- puts in order
- reclaims
- reconstructs
- rectifies
- redresses
- reforms
- regulates
- remedies
- remodels
- reorganizes
- repairs
- retouches
- reviews
- revises
- rights
- scrubs
- sets right
- sets straight
- shapes up
- straightens out
- touches up
- turns around
- upgrades
- abuse
- anathematize
- attack
- ban
- banish
- blaspheme
- blast
- cast out
- castigate
- censure
- complain of
- confound
- convict
- criticize
- cry down
- curse
- cuss
- darn
- denunciate
- doom
- drat
- excommunicate
- excoriate
- execrate
- expel
- flame
- fulminate against
- imprecate
- inveigle against
- jinx
- object to
- objurgate
- pan
- penalize
- proscribe
- punish
- revile
- sentence
- slam
- swear
- thunder against
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