0 without receiving the deserved or expected punishment or without being harmed: --
1 without receiving the punishment deserved: --
Nobody can claim any longer that the guilty get off scot-free.
The difficulty arises in regard to those not caught red-handed who ought not to get off scot-free.
As to the man who simply squandered his money recklessly, he goes scot-free.
But if the advertising material did not itself illustrate the techniques, the senders of the advertising material would get off scot-free.
Constantly they are being attacked and the raiders get off scot-free with a great deal of loot.
Yet in the past income, including earnings, has been fully taxed, while capital gains have gone scot-free.
The police force which put that man in that position got off scot-free.
That means that a defendant in such a case is entitled to go scot-free, however negligent he may have been.
