Associations to the word «Punishable»

Wiktionary

PUNISHABLE, adjective. Able to be punished; appropriate for punishment.

Dictionary definition

PUNISHABLE, adjective. Liable to or deserving punishment; "punishable offenses".
PUNISHABLE, adjective. Subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne