: completely free from obligation, harm, or penalty
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Thanks to them the attack mastermind escaped scot-free and soon those who that day desecrated the Capitol and battered the police will be pardoned and will leap snarling back into society.—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024 And with all of the lawsuits and court appearances and everything, indictments that he's undergone over the last couple of years, he's gotten away scot-free.—Tim Marchman, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024 Assad walked away scot-free while the U.S. and its allies turned their attention to the black flag of ISIS.—Ian Pannell, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024 Those tariffs, if they're not used properly, are just going to raise costs on ordinary Americans while the billionaires get off scot-free.—NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024 The season ends with the mercenary getting away scot-free after successfully pulling off a gambit that forces the MI5 to release him via blackmail.—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024 If a lawyer is hired to defend a company that just poisoned thousands of innocent people, the lawyer’s job is, if possible, to get that company off scot-free.—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024 Rapper Killer Mike is moving past his arrest at the Grammy Awards earlier this year seemingly scot-free and fired up.—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024 Taylor Swift’s dad has got off scot-free after allegedly assaulting an Australian paparazzo during the superstar’s tour in Sydney last month.—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
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