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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



... pondered daily. I always keep my expectations down, so that I am not disappointed if I get a "D" or an "E." My success in life has been far beyond my expectations. I know several authors who think they have not had their just deserts; but it is their own fault. I have just read this in Macaulay: "If a man brings away from Cambridge [where he graduated in eighteen hundred and twenty-two] self-knowledge, accuracy of mind and habits of strong intellectual exertion he has got the ...
— My Boyhood • John Burroughs
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... full report of the whole matter to General Bragg. "The plot was damnable," he wrote, "yet it might have been successful if Major Conway had not met his just deserts. But one might as well accuse me of holding treasonable communications with the enemy as Lieutenant Pennington. He is the officer, as you may remember, that entered Nashville a short time since, and sent you such a valuable report. Moreover, he is the very officer ...
— Raiding with Morgan • Byron A. Dunn
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Words linked to "Just deserts" :   result, final result, resultant, outcome, poetic justice, termination


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