sentenced
Given court punishment
Sentenced is the past tense of sentence, meaning a judge or court has formally declared punishment: He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
The word almost always appears in legal contexts, where someone found guilty receives their penalty.
Figuratively, to be sentenced to something is to be condemned to endure it: sentenced to a lifetime of regret.
Official court decision
- convictionFirmly held belief
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- judgeOne who decides
- juryLegal decision-making body
courtroom · guilty · prosecution · defense · attorney · plea · testimony · evidence
Confinement in jail
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- jailDetention facility
- detentionTemporary official holding
- confinementState of being restricted
probation · parole · penalty · correctional · rehabilitation · custody · solitary · community service
Provision in agreement
- phraseWords forming partial meaning
- subjectMatter under discussion
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- verbAction-expressing word
noun · period · paragraph · statement · declaration · utterance · construction · word order
verdict
Official court decision
- convictionFirmly held belief
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- judgeOne who decides
jury · courtroom · guilty · prosecution · defense · attorney · plea · testimony · evidence · arraignment
incarceration
Confinement in jail
confinement · probation · parole · penalty · correctional · rehabilitation · custody · solitary · community service · fine
clause
Provision in agreement
- phraseWords forming partial meaning
- subjectMatter under discussion
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
verb · noun · period · paragraph · statement · declaration · utterance · construction · word order · punctuation
- legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law
- criminal traitsconvicted, guilty, accused, arrested, wanted
- accountabilityaccountability, responsibility, accountable, take responsibility, answerability
- prison classificationsmaximum security, medium security, minimum security, supermax, level one
- suspectssuspect, accused, prime suspect, person of interest, alleged
sentencedacquitted
Declared legally innocent
exonerated · cleared · absolved · vindicated · found not guilty
sentencedrewarded
Given something earned
unpunished · commended · honored · praised · forgiven
sentencedfreed
Released from confinement
liberated · released · emancipated · unchained · unshackled
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
- life sentenceImprisonment without release
- prison sentenceMandated period of incarceration
- concurrent sentencesOverlapping punishment periods
- sentencing lawsStatutes governing criminal penalties
- complete sentence
sentence, sentences, sentencing, sentencings, resentencing, resentenced, presentencing