Advertisement
 Translation for 'just deserts' from English to Icelandic
SYNO just deserts | poetic justice
makleg málagjöld {hv.ft}just deserts
Partial Matches
aðeins {adv}just
einmitt {adv}just
ósköp {adv} [bara]just
réttmætur {adj} [réttlátur]just
einungis {adv}just
rúmlega {adv}just over
sanngildi {hv}just value
garð.
nýútsprunginn {adj}
just bloomed
læknisfr.
nýútskrifaður {adj}
just discharged
útgáf.
nýútkominn {adj}
just published
útgáf.
nýútgefinn {adj}
just published
nýlokinn {adj}just finished
nýlentur {adj}just landed
nýgiftur {adj}just married
Allt ágætt!Just fine!
nýfluttur {adj}just moved
nýbyrjaður {adj}just begun
Af því bara.Just because.
nýbúinn {adj}just finished
núna {adv}just now
21 translations
To translate another word just start typing!

Usage Examples English
  • The main distinction is between theories that say the basis of just deserts ought to be held equally by everyone, and therefore derive egalitarian accounts of distributive justice – and theories that say the basis of just deserts is unequally distributed on the basis of, for instance, hard work, and therefore derive accounts of distributive justice by which some should have more than others.
  • Tarzan goes after the villains and they end up getting their just deserts.
  • Her lover is now in the position she was once in, and in being rejected receives their just deserts ("what goes around comes around").
  • (...). and co author with Eric Walters of Just Deserts.
  • Particular justice is the correct distribution of just deserts to others.

  • a supposed "hostage" actually liking his abductors and enjoying being captured, and his captors getting their just deserts by having the tables turned on them, and being compelled to pay to be rid of him.
  • At the time, the riots were interpreted by some as just deserts for the abolitionist leaders, who had "taken it upon themselves to regulate public opinion upon slavery" and who showed "smutty tastes" and "temerity".
  • It became a best-seller with sales of up to 100,000 per issue, despite being banned in Queensland, apparently on the grounds that the bad-guy protagonist kept escaping his just deserts to fight another day.
  • The scoundrel Franz Markel tries some mischief against Elisabeth, but he is revealed by the millionaire's son Rolf Heller, who gives the villain his just deserts.
  • Another group "got their just deserts" when they were killed trying to flee to Hinchinbrook Island.

  • He writes: "For the most part it succeeds in cheesy C grade "so bad it’s good" horror, with a lot of irritating characters getting their just deserts.
  • Just deserts are things deserved.
  • However, all ends well with Subhash recovering from a near-fatal wound and the exposed politicians getting their just deserts throughout an irate job.
  • The ending finds Alfalfa getting his just deserts as his bottom gets set on fire in front of the audience.
  • While "deserve" is common as a verb, the noun result "desert" is rare in colloquial speech; it is almost exclusively used in the phrase "just deserts" (e.g. ...

    Advertisement
    © dict.cc Icelandic-English dictionary 2024
    Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
    Links to this dictionary or to individual translations are very welcome!