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synonyms for deserts

  • chastening
  • chastisement
  • comeuppance
  • compensation
  • deserving
  • discipline
  • disciplining
  • due
  • guerdon
  • lumps
  • meed
  • merit
  • payment
  • penalty
  • punishment
  • recompense
  • requital
  • retribution
  • return
  • revenge
  • reward
  • right
  • get hers
  • get his
  • talion
  • what is coming to one
  • what one is asking for

antonyms for deserts

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  • award
  • forgiveness
  • pardon
  • penalty
  • reward
  • sympathy
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How to use deserts in a sentence

And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
A beau highwayman and a miserable chimney sweeper were to be hanged together at Newgate for their respective deserts.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUS
Again, a husband who drives his wife away from him by his misconduct deserts her as clearly as if he had left her.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
No, give me deserts or precipices,—anything fixed and solid is better than this capricious, ever-changing sea.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
It was not a place of trade, and was distant a hundred leagues from Chaldæa, and deserts lay between.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)
Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded together are the food of the Arabs who traverse the deserts.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUS
Everywhere the small man has been forced to retire into forests, deserts, and icy barrens before the taller and stronger man.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRIS
By virtue of my principles, rather than their deserts, I must give them my intellectual sympathy; they touch no chord in my heart.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN
True, I was no longer a leader on my own responsibility, but the rank I held was honourable, and perhaps far above my deserts.
CONFESSIONS OF A THUGPHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
Whatever deserts he might place between himself and Mrs. Fairmile, Daphne would imagine them together.
MARRIAGE LA MODEMRS. HUMPHRY WARD
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