impunity
B2CEFR level
42/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General noun
Exemption from punishment or from the harmful consequences of an action.
For years the cartel operated with complete impunity, untouched by the police.
Law noun
Exemption from punishment or accountability for human-rights violations.
The blanket amnesty entrenched a culture of impunity for state killings.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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