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Just deserts   /dʒəst dˈɛzərts/   Listen
Just deserts

noun
1.
An outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically).  Synonym: poetic justice.






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"Just deserts" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Littlest Girl, sped apace by his unrighteous appropriation of our can of oysters, in which he had held no fee simple, but only an individual and indeterminate interest, had prospered beyond all just deserts of a red-headed cow puncher with a salary of forty-five dollars a month. He had already, less than two months after the installation of the new postmaster, announced to his friends his forthcoming nuptials, and ever since the setting of the happy date had comported ...
— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough



Words linked to "Just deserts" :   outcome, result, final result, termination, resultant



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