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The study observed that they “frequently compared institutional placements to prison, as institutional placements have many functions of a carceral environment: confined, surveilling, punitory, restrictive, and degrading.”

This letter made the world seem cold to George, who strongly suspected Percy had dictated the punitory clauses.

In her opinion for anybody to lay a punitory hand upon her nephew was to commit an act tantamount to sacrilege.

On the scale of my punitory Carolina or Theresiana--instead of the usual pedagogic disgraces and corporal inflictions--stood coldness--a mournful look--a mournful reproof--and, severest of all, the threat of going away.

The father had made this chamber-imprisonment a punitory mark of her refusal.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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