punishable

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Punishable contempt, said Gignoux, exists when intentional "misbehavior, in the presence of a judge, is substantial enough to cause material obstruction of the trial."

From Time Magazine Archive

Punishable, not Punished.—Our crime against criminals consists in the fact that we treat them as rascals.

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm