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Adjective(1) fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment(2) fitting or appropriate and deserved(3) used especially of punishment

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(1) There will be condign punishment for any MSP who fails to make at least one long and tedious speech a month about a minor constituency matter.(2) Victims, on the other hand, united only in their grief, plead for no more than the solace that a condign sentence would bring.(3) A month later, condign civilian behaviour is less easy to judge.(4) He was pursued up the tunnel by Jock and had to lock himself in the dressing room to avoid condign punishment.(5) As he points out, if the allegation were true, this leak would constitute a serious breach of national security and would merit condign punishment under a 1982 law.(6) Do not compound this further by harming yourself with doubt, or believing that your treatment is condign .(7) I may pity him, and even understand his motives, but a murderer is still deserving of condign punishment.(8) Can liberals accept that an undervote usually reflects either voter carelessness, for which the voter suffers the condign punishment of an unrecorded preference, or reflects the voter's choice not to express a preference?(9) Abu Salem's extradition has additional complications, and there is little possibility of his eventually facing condign punishment for his outrageous crimes.(10) Strategic targets involve the use of large devices in order to create massive and condign destruction; tactical ones would be attacked by smaller devices with effects limited to an immediate and defined area.(11) Angela Wendt's costumes and Russell H. Champa's lighting condignly complete the picture.(12) Granted, he looks condignly mistakable for his sister, and tries, I imagine, to sound subduedly like her; he still gives a waterlogged performance.(13) The Roundabout revival features a convincingly horrendous set by John Lee Beatty, aptly atmospheric costuming by Jane Greenwood, and condignly murky lighting by Peter Kaczorowski.(14) Prodigal scenery by Giles Cadle and lavishly impudent costumes by William Ivey Long are condignly lighted by Kenneth Posner; Lane and Bart, inspired comedians, make the good jokes resonate and the poorer ones bearable.(15) These two are condignly seconded by the other thespians.