Sentence examples for retributory from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or relating to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment.
Yet it could establish a basic retributory process, not least because Sinn Fein, the likeliest spoiler, seems willing to accept it.
They're dispatched to their early graves with witty heartlessness, as she goes magisterially on her way, hatpin firmly in place, Edwardian skirt an inch above the ground and umbrella at the ready for rain or retributory justice.
Where the old guard's view of the club and its position within the code was fundamentally reclamatory and retributory, nourished by very legitimate past grievances and motivated by the desire to seek their redress, the new guard understood that the best way forward for the club was to shelve the past and get on with living.
By M. C. Blackman The New Yorker, January 1 , 1944P. 55 A Frenchman, who has spent thirteen months in a German prison camp, thought up a novel retributory device for punishing the Germans; an escalator, always moving downward, constricting a man to walk always upward.
