IMPUNITY Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

impunity

noun

im-ˈpyü-nə-tē

Definition of impunity

as in immunity

freedom from punishment, harm, or loss she mistakenly believed that she could insult people with impunity

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Recent Examples of impunity Hernández now returns to the country to face corruption charges amid concerns that a weak justice system and his party’s return to the presidency will ensure his impunity. — ABC News, 26 July 2026 Hernández returns to Honduras to face corruption charges amid concerns that a weak justice system and his party’s return to the presidency will ensure his impunity. — Marlon González, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026 The novel also alludes to contemporary examples of violence in the country’s current, democratic system, gesturing to the ways in which brutality persists in Brazil as state and corporate power continue to commit violence with near impunity. — Literary Hub, 24 July 2026 But this is a story about how Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police handled the hanging death of a Black girl in the South, a region where white people publicly lynched Black people with impunity a few generations ago. — Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for impunity

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Noun

Billie had agreed to give Lucky and her father immunity, but only if Lucky could deliver the evidence needed to lock Whittaker up permanently.

— Max Gao, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
Nobody questions the employees in the agencies, and they are given tremendous immunity.

— Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of immunity

Noun

Nobody in their right mind would argue that Alphabet and Nvidia need laws to protect them from competition, but lots of otherwise intelligent people believe that banks, an even more profitable group of companies, do need such protection.

— Omid Malekan, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Friendship was also the protection built into Difficult People.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of protection

Noun

The measure would increase the $50,000 property tax exemption for homestead properties to $150,000 in 2027 and to $250,000 in 2028, but the portion of the property bill that goes to K-12 public schools would be exempt from the exemption.

— Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Florida’s Amendment 3 would increase the non-school homestead exemption from $50,000 to $150,000 in 2027 and to $250,000 in 2028.

— Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of exemption

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