Synonyms for punishing
pun·ish·ing

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1. punishingadjective

   resulting in punishment

   "the king imposed a punishing tax"

   Synonyms:
   toilsome, heavy, laborious, arduous, hard, operose, grueling, backbreaking, gruelling

   Antonyms:
   effortless

2. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsomeadjective

   characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

   "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"

   Synonyms:
   backbreaking, sullen, ponderous, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, sound, wakeless, dense, grueling, with child(p), threatening, grave, straining, severe, cloggy, lumbering, large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, voiceless, grievous, tough, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, unvoiced, gruelling, expectant, concentrated, lowering, surd, heavy(a), sonorous, impenetrable, arduous, operose, strenuous, heavy, heavy(p), big(a), labored, profound, difficult, laboured, strong, gravid, big(p), leaden, knockout

   Antonyms:
   effortless

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1. List of paraphrases for "punishing":

   punish, penalising, punishment, penalizing, suppression, sanctioning, punished

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1. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.:

   The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

2. Stephen Breyer:

   I mean, my goodness, every school in the country would be doing nothing but punishing.

3. Amit Ray:

   Generating more respect, values, and brotherhood among countries is the role of the United Nations. Policing, blaming, or punishing countries is not the job of the UN.

4. Fergus Cullen:

   In the past candidates in who have campaigned in traditional way with town halls and house parties have been rewarded by voters and candidates who cut corners and just give big speeches suffer, but in this cycle, voters don't seem to be punishing Ben Carson and Donald Trump who have hardly done any traditional campaigning at all. The candidates who are wearing out their shoes aren't really getting credit.

5. President Dilma Rousseff:

   We are severely punishing those responsible for this tragedy.