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chastised ;unpunished
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Examples
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Justice must be served, of course, and I don't suggest that we idly watch evil go unchastised.
Jim Beaver: 'Life's That Way': Grieving Change Jim Beaver 2010
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And that laser-like focus on Congress right now should go to demanding Impeachment, so that these criminals do not slink off into the Sunset with the loot, untouched and unchastised, and so that there won't be any re-cycling of that kind of blatant un-constitutional criminality in the future! by
Defining Hope and Change With Laser-Like Focus on Congress 2008
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And that laser-like focus on Congress right now should go to demanding Impeachment, so that these criminals do not slink off into the Sunset with the loot, untouched and unchastised, and so that there won't be any re-cycling of that kind of blatant un-constitutional criminality in the future! by
Defining Hope and Change With Laser-Like Focus on Congress 2008
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And that laser-like focus on Congress right now should go to demanding Impeachment, so that these criminals do not slink off into the Sunset with the loot, untouched and unchastised, and so that there won't be any re-cycling of that kind of blatant un-constitutional criminality in the future! by
Defining Hope and Change With Laser-Like Focus on Congress 2008
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Being a man of uncommon spirit, he never suffered the least insult or affront to pass unchastised.
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And good luck must he have that carries unchastised an error in his head unto his death. 24
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To get the key to Burke's somewhat irregular and startling career, it is necessary, to study the idea of the old whig constitution of the English monarchy: viewing his course from that point of view, we comprehend his almost countenancing and encouraging rebellion in the case of the American colonies; his intense hostility to Warren Hastings 'imperial system; his unchastised earnestness in opposition to French maxims in the decline of his life.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various
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This is the ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no offence go unchastised.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan
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The characteristics of both, however, are evidently the same; -- a broken narrative -- a redundancy of minute description -- bursts of unequal and energetic poetry -- and a general tone of spirit and animation, unchecked by timidity or affectation, and unchastised by any great delicacy of taste, or elegance of fancy.
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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Even the odor of my Calcutta washerman, redolent with the fragrance of castor oil, was too much for my unchastised squeamishness; and as to assafoetida, the favorite condiment of our Aryan cousins, I was so uncatholic as to bring away from India the same aversion to it that I had carried out there.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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