What is "penalized"

Usage examples of "penalized".

If this group were penalized, not for its faults, but for its virtues, not for its incompetence, but for its ability, not for its failures, but for its achievements, and the greater the achievement, the greater the penalty—would you call that persecution?

It went as follows: if the students commit illegal acts, they will be punished by the courts and must not, therefore, be penalized by the university for the same offense.

If genius is penalized, so is the faculty of intelligence in every other man.

And then I saw that the whole industrial establishment of the world, with all of its magnificent machinery, its thousand-ton furnaces, its transatlantic cables, its mahogany offices, its stock exchanges, its blazing electric signs, its power, its wealth—all of it was run, not by bankers and boards of directors, but by any unshaved humanitarian in any basement beer joint, by any face pudgy with malice, who preached that virtue must be penalized for being virtue, that the purpose of ability is to serve incompetence, that man has no right to exist except for the sake of others.

And because you are honest, you will not be penalized for it in the settlement.

Hendley would undoubtedly be penalized for being a party to the switch, no matter what story he told.

But I'll be damned if I can see why a man worth forty must be penalized--and penalized in favor of the one who's less competent.

Vaguely, he wanted to better herself, because she saw clearly that [56] her two sisters and her brother had severely penalized themselves by not continuing with their education.

And I was concerned that if I penalized him too severely, that he could accuse me of violating General Order Thirty-four.