Penalizing
Penalizing adjective - Inflicting, involving, or serving as punishment.
Usage example: forced to listen to a penalizing lecture on the consequences of lying
Retaliative and penalizing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Retaliative" instead an adjective "Penalizing".
Retaliative
Penalizing and retaliative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Penalizing" instead an adjective "Retaliative".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- revengeful and penalizing
- revengeful and retaliative
- correcting and penalizing
- correcting and retaliative
- corrective and penalizing
- corrective and retaliative
- punishing and penalizing
- punishing and retaliative
- chastening and penalizing
- chastening and retaliative
- disciplinary and penalizing
- disciplinary and retaliative
- penal and penalizing
- penal and retaliative
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