Antonyms for punishingpun·ish·ing

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1. punishingadjective

   resulting in punishment

   "the king imposed a punishing tax"

   Antonyms:
   effortless

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

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"

   Antonyms:
   effortless

   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

How to use punishing in a sentence?

1. Reginald Bolding:

   It’s a sickening irony that he’s doing this by dangling millions of federally provided funds for COVID-19 relief and forcing school districts to choose between the health and safety of kids and educators, or millions in additional funding that Republicans have withheld for years, with the delta variant running rampant and COVID-19 cases among children on the rise, it’s disgusting to put a bounty on spreading this illness to kids and punishing schools that try to operate safely.

2. Richard Neely:

   It would be punishing the force that has worked extremely hard the last two years to ensure The Illinois National Guard is always ready and always there when our nation in our community needs us.

3. Engine Capital:

   Even the most patient long-term shareholders can not be expected to endure the punishing underperformance and perpetual value disconnect seen at Kohl's.

4. Ayesha Verrall:

   We don’t think tax increases will have any further impact, it’s really hard to quit and we feel if we did that, we'd be punishing those people who are addicted to cigarettes even more.

5. Carly Fiorina:

   I would make two phone calls, day one, in the Oval Office. The first would be to Bibi Netanyahu. The second would be to the Supreme Leader of Iran. And while he might not take my phone call, he would get the message, and the message would be until and unless you are prepared to open every nuclear facility, every uranium enrichment facility to full, untethered, anytime, anywhere inspections, we will exact the most punishing financial sanctions we can.

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