HyperDic: just_deserts

English > 1 sense of the expression just deserts:
NOUNeventjust deserts, comeuppance, comeupance, poetic jsticean outcome / outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)
English > just deserts: 1 sense > noun 1, event
MeaningAn outcome / outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically).
Synonymscomeuppance, comeupance, poetic jstice
Broaderconsequence, aftermathThe outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual
Usage ofpluralthe form of a word that is used to denote more than one
Spanishcomeupance, merecido
Catalancomeupance, deserts

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