escape punishment in English

evade retribution or penalty, avoid corrective discipline

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1. He faked stupidity to try to escape punishment for the crime.

2. Even if the trigger men are caught, those who ordered the killing escape punishment.

3. Wishart was a reformer who had fled Scotland in 1538 to escape punishment for heresy.

4. I admit that in aiding her to recover the monies from the insurance company, I had also helped Leyland escape punishment.

5. Wilkes was eventually arrested for seditious libel but he fled to France to escape punishment; he was expelled from the House of Commons, and found guilty in absentia of blasphemy and libel.